Facebook’s environmentally-friendly data center features high-tech cooling system Facebook today announced that its Prineville data center in Oregon has received LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council,… Read More
Video: Facebook’s ultra-efficient server, a guided tour I’ve been spending the afternoon at the SC11 supercomputer conference, taking place this week in Seattle, where one of the… Read More
New $60 million data center slated for downtown Seattle Citing Seattle as a communications hub and an important portal to Asia, Redwood City, California-based Equinix announced today that it… Read More
Quincy leases Microsoft water treatment plant in novel deal The city of Quincy, Wash., will lease a water treatment plant from Microsoft on the site of the company’s data… Read More
California firm to purchase 63 acres for massive data center in central Washington Quincy, Washington — an agricultural town near the Columbia River in central Washington — continues to attract technology companies in… Read More
Savvis expands data center in Seattle: Benaroya lands Marvell After getting gobbled up by CenturyLink, data center giant Savvis is expanding its operations in the Seattle area. The company… Read More
Lawmaker hopes for ‘teachable moment’ after state data center outage costs $500,000 This is not what the state needed. After much criticism about the construction of the state’s new data center in… Read More
Sabey, Dell push ahead with massive data centers in Quincy The tiny town of Quincy, Washington continues to transform from agriculture to data centers. And two large facilities, housing the… Read More
How the cool night air of the desert led Facebook to Prineville, Oregon For the longest time, I assumed that Facebook chose Prineville, Oregon for its new data center because of hydroelectric power.… Read More
Data centers aren’t sucking as much electricity as predicted Massive data centers — many of which dot the Columbia River basin in Washington and Oregon — have historically been… Read More
Facebook to expand data center operations in central Oregon Yesterday, we told you about Facebook’s desires to find more office space in downtown Seattle. But that’s not the social… Read More
Microsoft data center GM leaves, reportedly for Apple The general manager in charge of Microsoft’s data center operations, Kevin Timmons, has left the company for a job at… Read More
Facebook shakes things up, shares data center secrets Facebook today took the unusual step of starting to share with the world the techniques it has developed to make… Read More
Amazon expanding data center operations in Oregon Cheap hydroelectric power continues to entice big technology companies to the Columbia River towns of the Pacific Northwest. Amazon.com —… Read More
Why Microsoft is paying $7.5M for 600,000 IP addresses Microsoft is dropping more than a few jaws with the news that it’s spending $7.5 million to acquire 666,624 IP… Read More
Fisher weighs possible Fisher Plaza sale, financing Fisher Communications says has retained a financial adviser to “explore alternatives for maximizing the value of Fisher Plaza in Seattle,”… Read More
