editor Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 BisNow has a blurb about a new data center being built in The Woodlands: The Woodlands is also a great spot because it’s outside of the 500-year floodplain and more than 75 miles from the Gulf Coast. The part that caught my eye, though, was that it's being built to "Miami-Dade County" building code standards. Does Miami have stronger building codes than Houston? Should it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Massively stronger...and should be. Miami is like Galveston, but on the Atlantic. No land buffer like Houston has, and deeper water makes for stronger storms. Ours always shrink just before landfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muralpainter Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 So...you say you need a secure Data Center? Links of "before" and "after".http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/Building/2124/The-Westlin-Bunker.phphttp://www.westlandbunker.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Usually nobody announces building new DCs... big security issues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 Usually nobody announces building new DCs... big security issues...Really? I see new data center announcements all the time. Facebook, Apple, Google, and others do it frequently. Even Yelp, with its fancy flywheel isolation platform on the roof. Maybe it's just unusual to announce in Texas. I'm more in tune with what's going on in Oregon and Washington state where every little town with a waterfall is throwing subsidies at different dot-com companies to build their data centers there. Everyone gets "green" credits because the centers can use natural cooling most of the year, and hydro power. The towns make these announcements when the dot-coms don't because it's an economic stimulus thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Nope. It's not unusual to announce data centers in Texas. We see them all the time here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Really? I see new data center announcements all the time. Facebook, Apple, Google, and others do it frequently. Even Yelp, with its fancy flywheel isolation platform on the roof.Maybe it's just unusual to announce in Texas. I'm more in tune with what's going on in Oregon and Washington state where every little town with a waterfall is throwing subsidies at different dot-com companies to build their data centers there. Everyone gets "green" credits because the centers can use natural cooling most of the year, and hydro power. The towns make these announcements when the dot-coms don't because it's an economic stimulus thing.Interesting. I've worked in several DCs over the past 12 years and it was always a hush-hush affair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleak Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Facebook is just about ready to open a big one in Sweden that is cooled by ambient air - they have been talking it up a storm since it saves so much on a/c costs.http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/10/27/facebook-goes-global-with-data-center-in-sweden/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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