Sabey Corporation will build a data center campus as a sister site to the company's data center that opened in East Wenatchee earlier this year.

The site will be a combined colocation and enterprise facility constructed and owned by Sabey Corporation with three data centers over 40 acres. Groundbreaking is expected this summer.

Sabey decided to build the second campus after the success of the company's first data center in North Central Washington, as well as the continued strong interest in leased data centers.

Intergate.Columbia signed T-Mobile and VMware as tenants within a year of groundbreaking. Several major companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask.com and Intuit, have opened large data centers in North Central Washington recently, drawn by the area's low power rates, mild climate and receptive municipalities.

In its statement Sabey said: "A typical data center is a 20-megawatt legacy facility that requires 10 megawatts for the server and at least 10 megawatts for cooling, adding up to a fairly typical Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 2.0.

Compare that to Intergate.Quincy, which is designed to easily attain a PUE of 1.4 or less, which reduces the cooling requirement by 6 megawatts - an actual energy savings of approximately 120 million kWh/year. The operator of a typical 20-megawatt data center would also save on electric rates at Intergate.Quincy. Paying much lower than the national average of $.07/kWH, an operator leasing at Intergate.Quincy in Grant County would save about $8.8 million a year. Combined with the energy efficiency savings, that's a total savings of $10 million a year."Since the facility is hydro-powered, there is no unavoidable emission of carbon dioxide, it said.

The two campuses are the first designed to accommodate operators who prefer the ease of leasing rather than owning said Sabey. The success of the location also shows that large companies see no downside to locating their data centers at a distance from the companies'core functions, the company said. "It's clear that the concept of leasing makes sense to major data center operators,"said John Ford, Director of Technology Real Estate for Sabey Corporation.

"Our tenants design their interior modifications, while we provide them the economies of scale for shell and core. We also offer the infrastructure and mechanical system options to make their operations and budgets much more efficient."Another key benefit, Ford said, is North Central Washington's dry, moderate weather that allows for cost-effective solutions like evaporative cooling.

Combined with the much lower utility rates in Grant County, a data center can save several million dollars and more than 100 million kWh of power a year.

The firm will use the same partners which worked on its first data center. The team includes: Sabey Construction, Inc., Callison Architecture, The McKinstry Company, Veca Electrical, Engineers Northwest and ESW Consultants.