The document discusses construction management practices of several data center CEOs in Seattle, Washington. It describes how Dave Sabey of Sabey Corporation built the largest privately owned data center in the region using ambient cooling. Matthew Gerber of Digital Fortress provides data center space powered by 95% hydroelectricity. Richard Stevenson of Clise Properties is repurposing a data center building to provide heat for a nearby Amazon campus in an innovative looping system. The document also mentions a conference that discussed construction innovations in the Seattle data center market.
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Which Seattle Data Center CEOs Excel at Construction Management? (SlideShare)
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Which Seattle Data Center CEOs
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2. The Pacific Northwest, Seattle in
particular, is an up and coming
area for data center location due
to its connectivity, economic
stability, and technology
infrastructure.
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3. Seattle data center CEOs have
built some of the largest data
centers in the U.S., and have
implemented innovative ideas
in that construction.
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4. Let’s look at several data
centers in Seattle and see
what’s happening in the area of
construction management.
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5. Sabey Corporation
•Dave Sabey is the CEO and founder of Sabey, and the
Sabey motto is “built to last”.
•Containing over 1,370,000 square feet, Sabey’s Seattle
data center is theWest Coast’s largest privately owned
data center that serves multiple tenants.
•Jim Harding, Sabey’s chief technology officer,
described Dave Sabey as “having an uncanny grasp” of
emerging trends.
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6. Sabey Corporation
Evidence of that can be seen in the Seattle
data center’s award-winning use of ambient
cooling for most of the year, which, when
combined with hydropower, allows the data
center to be green and efficient.
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7. Digital Fortress
•The CEO of Digital Fortress, Matthew Gerber, serves
the enterprise customer with over 60,000 square feet
of data center space in Seattle.
•Green energy is also the focus of Gerber, with over 95%
of the data center’s utility power coming from
hydroelectricity.
•In addition to colo services, Gerber is adding cloud and
managed services to the mix at Digital Fortress.
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8. Clise Properties
The president of Clise Properties, Richard
Stevenson, is technically not a data center
CEO, however, his company owns theWestin
Building, which houses data centers.
He is mentioned here for the innovative way
the data center is being repurposed.
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9. Clise Properties
•Amazon is building a campus across the street
from theWestin Building.
•It will be heated with the waste heat from the
data center.
•Water used to cool the data center will run by
underground pipe to a 400,000-fgallon reservoir
at the Amazon campus.
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10. Clise Properties
•Their heat will be removed from the water to
warm the Amazon building.
•The cooled water will run back across the street to
cool down the data center, creating a looping
system that benefits both the data center and the
Amazon campus.
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11. When discussing construction
management, the Greater
Seattle & Pacific Northwest
Data Center Summit must be
mentioned.
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12. CapRate produced an all-day
conference in Seattle and that brought
technology infrastructure executives
from Seattle and the Pacific Northwest
to discuss the state of the data center
market, new developments, and future
innovations.
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13. There were panel discussions, including
one on how data center space is evolving,
who is planning new data centers, the
role of modularity, the life expectancy of
a data center, and other topics
specifically geared to construction
management issues.
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14. Which data center CEOs in Seattle
do you feel excel at construction
management?
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15. Let us know your thoughts in the
Comments box below.
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