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The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly.The Planet [http://www.theplanet.com/], a collocation and managed hosting provider, will open a new data center in Plano, Texas - a suburb of Dallas -next week.
While the company will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new facility June 16, it will be up and running within the next two weeks, Vice President of Facilities Jeff Lowenberg said. It will provide some managed hosting services in the data center, it will primarily be used for colocation offering 45-unit cabinets to customers in the 106,000 sq. ft. facility, Lowenberg said.
"I can cool up to about 12 kW in a cabinet," he told DatacenterDynamics.com.
Lowenberg would not disclose how many customers the data center would serve immediately after opening. While the facility was not entered for LEED certification, Lowenberg said its modular cooling system would allow for significant energy savings. The cooling system was designed by Turbine Air Systems [http://www.tas.com/].
"We spent a lot of extra money putting in an extremely efficient water-cooling system."
Efficient cooling was an important investment for the facility given its Dallas-area location, where free cooling is not much of an option.
"This is a system that is designed and engineered (for) everything to work together," Lowenberg said. "All the motors have variable frequency drives, which makes them use a lot less energy."
Although The Planet dished out extra cash for the cooling system itself, it was able to save on installation time and cost.
"Another part of the modular design that we like is once it's been manufactured, you drop it in place. It's all been tested as a package. The installation time is much shorter (and) the cost is much less for the installation."
The Plano facility is The Planet's eighth data center and fifth in the Dallas area, company spokeswoman Yvonne Donaldson said. It will increase the company's total raised-floor footprint to 224,000 sq. ft. Lowenberg explained that what makes Dallas an attractive location for data center providers is a large concentration of corporate headquarters and good network connectivity.
While the company will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new facility June 16, it will be up and running within the next two weeks, Vice President of Facilities Jeff Lowenberg said. It will provide some managed hosting services in the data center, it will primarily be used for colocation offering 45-unit cabinets to customers in the 106,000 sq. ft. facility, Lowenberg said.
"I can cool up to about 12 kW in a cabinet," he told DatacenterDynamics.com.
Lowenberg would not disclose how many customers the data center would serve immediately after opening. While the facility was not entered for LEED certification, Lowenberg said its modular cooling system would allow for significant energy savings. The cooling system was designed by Turbine Air Systems [http://www.tas.com/].
"We spent a lot of extra money putting in an extremely efficient water-cooling system."
Efficient cooling was an important investment for the facility given its Dallas-area location, where free cooling is not much of an option.
"This is a system that is designed and engineered (for) everything to work together," Lowenberg said. "All the motors have variable frequency drives, which makes them use a lot less energy."
Although The Planet dished out extra cash for the cooling system itself, it was able to save on installation time and cost.
"Another part of the modular design that we like is once it's been manufactured, you drop it in place. It's all been tested as a package. The installation time is much shorter (and) the cost is much less for the installation."
The Plano facility is The Planet's eighth data center and fifth in the Dallas area, company spokeswoman Yvonne Donaldson said. It will increase the company's total raised-floor footprint to 224,000 sq. ft. Lowenberg explained that what makes Dallas an attractive location for data center providers is a large concentration of corporate headquarters and good network connectivity.