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Hebei province, China. Scheduled for completion in 2016, Range is a massive 6.3m square foot data center in the Hebei province of China.2016

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.

This somewhat controversial data center is said to hold massive amounts of data measured in relatively unheard of denominations such as “yottabytes” and “zettabytes”.

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 telecommunications and internet surveillance efforts.

ZBYB

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’s Chicago and Dublin data centers are 700,000 square feet and 550,000 square feet respectively.

Chicago is comprised of 40 ft shipping containers each with 2k servers requir-ing 8.5 million gallons of cooling fluid

for a capacity of 224,380 servers.

Chicago, IL

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.

Dublin,Ireland

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.

Washington

San Antonio, TX

Bangalore, India

TDC is dedicated to cloud and networking services while also used for colocation, managed hosting and data storage.

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

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

million iOS devices.

Apple is almost exclusively reliant on renewable energy and lays claim to the largest

private client of solar array installations.

Responsible for approximately 01% of global energy usage.(enough to continuously power 200,000 homes)

Google’s massive data centers are located in 13 locations around the world.

Facebook processes 2.4B pieces of content and 500TB of data each day.

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.

i/O’s Phoenix based data center is a 538,000 sq ft server farm backed by

renewable energy.

Phoenix, AZ

Miami, Florida

This 750,000 sq feet facility was constructed in 2001 and is a centralized infrastructure for over

183 networks.

Virginia

Scheduled to be completed in 2014, AC7 is powered by 41.6 megawatts

of electricity with baseline power per room at 1.486 MW.

Contains 28 large computer rooms with each data hall accommodating

approximately 378 cabinets.

Atlanta, GA

When first built, it was originally used by a

government organization.

1954

This 990,000 sq feet facility was leased out to a telecom company

for IT operations.

2000

Supported by 80 megawatts of power capacity and is looking at an investment

of $150 million

2014

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This 5 years old, 2.2M sq ft Nevada-based data center resides in the Nevada desert and with virtually no risk of natural disaster. It can hold 7k cabinets of servers

SwitchNAP is a group of seven NAPs utilizing the switch wattage density modular

design (WDMD), allowing complete control over the data center’s equipment.

SuperNAP 7 also makes the list powering 250 MW of electricity through its 470,000 sq ft facility.

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.

Has a backup of 53 generatorsUtilizes 8.5 million gallons

of cooling fluid per year

World class tenants include:

Contains 130 properties for a total of 23.9m rentable space with

2.8M sq. ft. held for development.

Chicago, IL

World’s Largest Data Centers

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