The cabinets inside Hurricane Electric's Fremont 2 colocation facility.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Colocation and Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric (www.he.net) announced on Tuesday it has completed construction of its third phase of its Freemont 2 Colocation Facility, one of its two data centers in Fremont, California.
Utility firm PG&E (www.pge.com) provided the company with a financial incentive for the project, as the data center qualifies under its energy efficiency requirements.
The additional 24,000-square-feet of new space in the 208,000-square-foot facility has a power capacity of 3MW.
The former Apple manufacturing facility includes a range energy efficiency features, such as UPS system, HVAC and cold-aisle/hot-aisle containment.
The facility's UPS system Eaton 9395 offers 99 percent energy efficiency in the Energy Saver mode, while its rooftop McQuay Maverick II HVAC system features variable-frequency drives, powered exhaust and a 100-percent-economizer mode.
The company will host a tour of the data center on November 5 at 8:30 a.m., which will have representatives from the companies on hand, including Martin Levy of Hurricane Electric, Mark Bramfitt of Pacific Gas & Electric and Bob Gaylord of Eaton Corporation.
Hurricane Electric provides Ipv6-native Internet backbone and operates three data centers.
In addition to the newly expanded Fremont facility, HE also operates a second Fremont data center that spans about 45,000 square feet, and a third facility that measures 3,000 square feet in San Jose, California.
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Comment by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Well maybe this explains the outage that occured today that caused critical problems for the current customers of Hurricane Electic. The entire data center was down for 25 minutes today after a failure of 2 hours in late September.
Comment by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 04, 2009
That's great they're expanding but all the darn downtime. They've had multiple power outages including one yesterday!