Dell plans to build a 350,000 square foot data center on land it recently purchased in Quincy, Washington, while developer Sabey Corp. will build more than 508,000 square feet of mission-critical facilities on a nearby property.
After a construction pause during the recession, big high-tech companies and wholesale data center providers are repositioning for growth in a new era of server virtualization.
After Washington state created a tax break for building data centers in rural areas, Microsoft is now expanding its data center in Quincy.
America’s dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business, with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft.