(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — When the National Security Agency (www.nsa.gov) announced on Tuesday it is nearing its selection of a lead contractor for the agency’s massive $1 billion data center in Utah, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
The NSA first announced its plans to build the 1-million-square-foot data center at Fort Williams in Utah back in July 2009.
This past January, it began accepting construction bids for the data center. The Federal Business Opportunities website listed 366 contractors on its initial “interested vendors list.”
After holding several “vendor days” where it explained the details of the project, the agency finally arrived at a shortlist of five candidates with a final award expected to be announced in September.
The three-phase project will roughly entail an initial 30-megawatt phase that spans 100,000 square feet of data center space and 900,00 square feet for technical support and administrative space, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.
Meanwhile, the 2010 defense budget stated that the data center would be “required to provide a 30MW technical load data center and infrastructure for 65MW technical load data center capacity.”
Other specifications for the project include power feeds from 2 substations, raised floor in 4 data halls with an average load density of 650 watts per square foot, and a capacity of 1.7 million gallons per day of water when at full load.
The Federal government aims to achieve a silver rating under the US Green Building Council’s energy efficiency LEED program.
The NSA data center will be built about 25 miles north of the new Twitter data center, as well as being located just up the road from eBay’s new data center in South Jordan.
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