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DuPont Fabros Technology
With 1.6 million square feet of data centre space , DuPont Fabros Technology offers a wide range of cabinet layouts as well as power densities in the 28 computer rooms at the facility . It was acquired by Digital Realty in 2017 and has several carrierneutral data centres and provides colocation and peering services . Each room is about 8,500 sq . ft . and provides from 1 megawatt to 2 megawatts of critical power . One room can hold about 380 server cabinets . The company ' s largest customers included Microsoft , Facebook , Rackspace , and Yahoo !.
SuperNAP is developed and operated by the Las Vegas-based company , Switch and has 3.5 million square feet of data centre space . Providing colocation , telecommunications , cloud services , and content ecosystems , Switch innovates to sustainably progress the digital foundation of the connected world . It focuses on enterprise-class and emerging hybrid cloud technology solutions . The SuperNAP data centre is claimed to be the world ’ s only Tier 5 Platinum hyper-scale data centre ecosystem . Its prime campuses are located in Las Vegas and Tahoe Reno , Nevada ; Grand Rapids , Michigan ; and Atlanta , Georgia .
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