Governor Bev Perdue announced today that Sentinel Data Centers LLC, a pioneer in the wholesale data center industry, has selected North Carolina as the location for a 420,000 square foot facility in Durham, making it the region’s first purpose-built multi-tenant data center for large-footprint users. The Sentinel NC-1 facility will be available for occupancy in early 2013 upon completion and commissioning of an initial 120,000-square-foot phase.
The Sentinel NC-1 facility will ultimately yield approximately 200,000 square feet of net computer room space, divisible into autonomous, turnkey suites of multiple sizes and configurations. The NC-1 facility will continue to advance the quality, flexibility and energy efficiency standards that have come to define Sentinel’s model. Sentinel NC-1 will also offer new “Multi-Tiering” solutions that will enable each user to deploy different resiliency zones within its space, allowing for the granular optimization of cost structure by application. Read more.