Data Recovery > IO Phoenix Trying To Beat-Out Microsoft's Mesa Global Command Center

The high-stakes game is on for players in Arizona's Silicon Desert here in The Valley Sun . . not quite a match and maybe playing in different leagues, but there's room for all.
According to a report from DataCenterDynamics in Feb 2016
IO purchased approximately nine acres of land to the south of the existing facility earlier this month. The company envisions a building that has been designed to house 600 pre-fabricated BaseLayer Core data center modules  modules on top of each other – something it says is a first for the industry. The newest data center will set the standard for state-of-the-art infrastructure that supports colocation and cloud services. It also demonstrates the company’s commitment to continue to invest in its hometown community.”

This headline hit industry new today:

IO gets go ahead for three-story $500m data centre

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By João Marques Lima Published: 08:31, 16 May, 2017 Updated: 08:31, 16 May, 2017

Source: Data Economy

Renewable energy to power large campus expansion in one of the world’s hottest data centre destinations.

IO has been given permission to expand its data centre campus in Phoenix, Arizona, in an investment tipped to reach $500m.

 

Some other details from The Stack emerged late yesterday:

Phoenix agrees to $500M IO data centre expansion

Nicky Cappella Mon 15 May 2017 4.53pm

The City Council has approved a $500 million expansion of the IO Data Center campus located in Phoenix, Arizona. The city agreed to spend $359,000 to improve the infrastructure of the site, prior to IO commencing construction of the new facility.

IO purchased a 9-acre site last February, adjacent to its current facility, for $8.5 million USD. IO President and founder Anthony Wanger said that the creation of a three-story, modular data center facility would enable the company to deploy over 600 new modules, significantly expanding the infrastructure capacity for local customers.
The existing IO Phoenix facility is a $200 million USD building that houses 10 separate data centers. The new, $500 million data center will be a standalone building constructed of pre-fabricated modules, using BaseLayer indoor Core modules.
The new building will use 100% renewable energy, which Wanger said is important to his company.
“We continue to focus on energy efficiency,” he said. “We build the most highly-efficient, highly-resilient data centers for the most demanding customers around the world, from CBS Interactive to Goldman Sachs. We continue to pursue access and market pricing for renewable energy. We use a lot of electricity and it’s important to us. We are continuing on behalf of our customers to pursue renewable energy.”
Initially, the company expected to break ground in 2016 and open the new data center in 2017, as part of a six-year plan to expand IO in the Phoenix metro area.

Earlier this year, data center giant Equinix announced that it had acquired IO’s data center in Slough, outside of London, and would rename the facility LD10. IO still operates data center facilities in Phoenix, as well as Singapore, Edison, New Jersey and Dayton, Ohio.