Some positive trends like a pre-lease in upcoming Chicago facility, fully leasing Santa Clara and its first mini-wholesale deal was peppered with bad news in the form of a big customer filing for bankruptcy in the quarter.
To validate its new data center design, DuPont Fabros filled a data hall with 200 cabinets of different heights and form factors, and used load banks to simulate densities of 15 kW per rack
Dupont Fabros' ACC7 will be the company's biggest and most efficient data center ever, with an expected PUE of 1.14 or lower. The facility employs a new design that takes advantage of medium voltage, a new cooling system, and offers better...