World's Largest High-Rise Data Center Opens In New York

CowboyRobot writes with this excerpt from Wall Street & Technology: "[Wednesday of this week], Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the opening [of] a 1 million square foot high-rise data center [in the] old Verizon switching building at 375 Pearl Street. Sabey Data Center Properties, the owner of the property, has named the data center Intergate.Manhattan and says the building's location, power supply and connectivity to underground fiber make it an ideal location for a data center in New York City. ... Intergate.Manhattan has only one tenant so far, the New York Genome Center, a compute and storage platform for 12 leading medical institutions to tackle the big data challenges that will bring the benefits of genomics to patient care." Let's hope they keep plenty of fuel around for next storm season.

How can they compete with other data centers that

[Joe_Dragon]

How can they compete with other data centers that lower land costs and are not in NYC / Manhattan.

Also what about cooling?

Also the costs of trucking stuff into Manhattan is high in just tolls.

Re:Why a data center for the building

[mjwalshe]

Its an ex telco exchange/central office I suspect that the DC is where the switches used to be and they took advantage of the preexisting kit in the building diverse power/ cable routing etc I would suspect that the gen sets are low down on the 1st or ground floors so that refueling shouldn't be a problem - or they have pumps with enough head that can pump fuel up from street level to the generators or have a crane on top and lift up barrels that way.

Scariest building in Manhattan

[Anonymous Coward]

It's forty stories tall and has no windows; not a single one. I've always considered it the creepiest building in the city. I'm not surprised they put a data-center in it - what else are you going to do with a giant, windowless monolith?