Software company Intuit is hoping to build a data center on 63 acres of land on Road 11 in Quincy.
According to Intuit Real Estate and Advanced Planning Manager Michael C. Gulasch, the company will make progress payments, he said. Originally, the company was going to reimburse the city for development costs after construction completion. Gulasch said the company would also agree to pay engineering fees and extensions to city water and sewer lines.
To conclude the land purchase for a data center, the land must be included within the Quincy Urban Growth Area. To be included in the growth area, Intuit submitted an application to Grant County to rezone the development site as an industrial site, Intuit Vice President David Merenbach noted.
Construction is expected to begin in early 2007.
In mid-2006, the town of 5,300 residents in central Washington State received a further fillet, with the news that Microsoft had purchased a 74 acre site on the edge of the town to build a large data centre complex. At the groundbreaking ceremony, Microsoft vice president of Windows Live operations, Debra Chrapaty, explained that the data centre complex will be largest Microsoft facility of its kind in the world, and be our premier data centre when finished.'
The first stage of the centre is scheduled to open in February 2007, and have 20,000 computers managing data in climate-controlled rooms and backed up by diesel generators capable of running the site for three days if power is disrupted.
The Quincy facility will be compromised of three buildings, each with 45,000ft┬▓ of space, enough to house two self-contained data centres. The complex will be the first that Microsoft has built and owned outright.
Yahoo has similarly chosen Quincy for the location of its new data centre. The company bought 50 acres of land on the northeast of the town and expects to open its centre in mid-2007.