Amazon is building a new data center in California
New Gilroy Data Center facility will help meet growing demand for cloud services
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Amazonappears to be planning to further expand its datacenter footprint in the US to meet growing demand for cloud computing services.
Based on anew proposal(PDF) submitted to the City of Gilroy in Santa Clara County, California, the cloud computing giant is planning to build a new site that will eventually house two datacenter buildings.
These new data centers would expandAWSavailability on the West Coast and each is planned to have a capacity of up to 49MW of equipment plus a security building and backup generator facilities according to a new report fromThe Register.
Amazon also announced last month that it would spend £1.8bn ($2.36bn) over the next two years toexpand its data centers in the UK. At the same time,Googlerecently announced its own plans to invest $9.5bn on bothoffice and datacenter infrastructure projectsin the US this year.
Gilroy Data Center facility
Amazon’s new Gilroy Data Center (GDC) facility in California will be constructed in two phases if given the go-ahead by the City of Gilroy.
The company expects the first phase which will consist of a single-story datacenter building, an onsite substation, a security building and a battery energy storage system to be operational by 2023. Phase two will involve creating another single-story datacenter building that is 218,000 square feet and it is expected to be built within four to seven years following the completion of phase one depending on customer demand.
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While the phase one data center will use diesel-firedbackup generators, Amazon intends to use alternative backup generation technologies for its phase two data center. One of the reasons for this is due to the fact that the company’s new facility will be located on farmland just outside of Gilroy that it purchased back in 2020 for $31.3m.
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Based onlocal media reportsthough, the City of Gilroy is in the process of soliciting bids from outside consultants in an effort to determine the potentialenvironmental impactof Amazon’s Gilroy Data Center facility before granting approval for the project.
We’ll likely hear more from Amazon if and when its new Gilroy Data Center facility is approved and moves on to the construction phase.
ViaThe Register
After working with the TechRadar Pro team for the last several years, Anthony is now the security and networking editor at Tom’s Guide where he covers everything from data breaches and ransomware gangs to the best way to cover your whole home or business with Wi-Fi. When not writing, you can find him tinkering with PCs and game consoles, managing cables and upgrading his smart home.
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