First Look At Amazon's Oregon Data Center

InformationWeek (Sep 14 2009) Construction

1. Amazon.com has confirmed that a major data center under construction on the Columbia River in Oregon belongs to the company. Work at the site, however, has quietly come to a halt. Until now, Amazon's involvement in the data center project at the Port of Morrow, a 9,000-acre industrial complex in Boardman, Ore., has been largely a matter of speculation. The company listed as the data center's owner is Vadata Inc., an obscure company without even a Web site. Recently, after an investigation by InformationWeek, Amazon confirmed that Vadata is a legal entity of Amazon, lifting some of the mystery around Vadata and establishing Amazon's involvement in the new data center. The Oregonian reported in November that plans called for the project to be carried out over six phases, starting with the construction of a 116,700-square-foot building to be followed by two more on the ... (Read Full Article)

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