World's Largest Data Centers

... DCIM DERaritan. BY RARITAN I THE LEADER IN DCIM World's Largest Data Centers DIGITAL REALTY Data Center Solutions Lakeside Technology Center Utilizes 8.5 million gallons of cooling fluid per year Has a backup of 53 generators Chicago, IL World class tenants include: IBM facebook. telx Digital Realty as a whole contains 130 properties for a total of 23.9m rentable space with 2.8M sq. ft. held for development CenturyLink" THE NTERCOnenon OOM Switch SwitchNAP is a group of seven NAPS utilizing the switch wattage density modular design (WDMD), allowing complete control over the data center's four different cooling methods Las Vegas, NV Rounding out the NAP category is NAP of the Americas, a 750k sq ft Tier-IV facility with N+2 power cooled by 2000 tons of chilled water SuperNAP 7 also makes the list powering 250 MW of electricity through its 470,000 sq ft facility. It can hold 7k cabinets of servers This 5 year old, 2.2M sq ft Nevada-based data center resides in the Nevada desert and with virtually no risk of natural disaster QTS Atlanta, GA 1954 2000 2014 When first built, it was originally used by a government organization. This 990,000 sq feet facility was leased out to a telecom company for IT operations. Supported by 80 megawatts of power capacity and is looking at an investment of $150 million DuPont Fabros Technology Virginia Scheduled to be completed in 2014, AC7 is powered by 41.6 megawatts of electricity with baseline power per Contains 28 large computer rooms with each data hall accommodating approximately 378 cabinets. room at 1.486 MW. terremark io This 750,000 sq feet facility was constructed in 2001 and is a centralized infrastructure for over 183 networks. Phoenix, AZ Lo i/O's Phoenix based data center is a 538,000 sq ft server farm backed by renewable energy. Miami, Florida Google Google's massive data centers are located in 13 locations around the world. Responsible for approximately.01% of global energy usage. (enough to continuously power 200,000 homes) The world's largest social network stores about 100 petabytes of data for it's approximately 1 billion users which is cooled by a natural airflow system. facebook. Facebook processes 2.4B pieces of content and 500TB of data each day. TULIP Presiding over 1M square ft in Bangalore India, Tulip is the world's 3rd largest data center spanning over 4 cities and producing up to a hundred megawatts of electricity making it possible Bangalore, India TDC is dedicated to cloud and networking services while also used for colocation, managed hosting and data storage. One of the world's most revered technology companies, Apple processes around 2 billion iMessages per day among it's 250 million iCloud users via tens of millions of Macs and an installed base of 500 Apple is almost exclusively reliant on renewable energy and lays claim to the largest private client of solar array installations. million iOS devices. amazon The world's largest internet retailer utilizes 450,000 servers in 7 locations around the world. Around 40,000 are dedicated to Amazon web services. Microsoft Microsoft's Chicago and Dublin data centers are 700,000 square feet and 550,000 square feet respectively. Washington Chicago, IL Dublin, Ireland San Antonio, TX Chicago is comprised of 40 ft. shipping containers each with 2k servers requiring 8.5 million gallons of cooling fluid for a capacity of 224,000 Dublin is considered the more environmentally friendly of the two utilizing less than 1% of water that traditional data centers use. Amazingly, Microsoft Dublin does not use any cooling towers. Also making the list are two of MS's data centers in Washington and San Antonio each taking up 470,000 square ft. and backed by hydroelectric power with 8 million gallons of water channelized through a state-of-the-art recycling system. servers. Range International Information Group Scheduled for completion in 2016, Range is a massive 6.3m square foot data center in the Hebei province of China. 2016 Hebei province, China. Nearly the same size as the United States Pentagon, Range will serve as the IT infrastructure platform of Langfang Range Int'l Information Hub in the Hebei Langfang Economic Development Zone. Range will also be used to support Langfang City's development and hosting for smarter transportation, e-government and administration systems, as well as food and drug safety services. NSA Data Center of Utah SECURITY This somewhat controversial data center is said to hold massive YB ZB amounts of data measured in relatively unheard of denominations such as "yottabytes" and "zettabytes". UNITED STATES While its purpose has not been officially stated, it is widely speculated that the facility will be home to oceans of data gathered through various OF telecommunications and internet surveillance efforts. 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