WindData to Invest $210 Million in Build Green Data Center in Texas

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Energy efficient data center operator WindData (www.winddatacenters.com) announced on Friday it plans to invest $210 in a 600,000-square-foot, five-building data center in Pflugerville, Texas following the approval by the Pflugerville Development Community Development.

According to the agreement, WindData will invest $70 million in the first three years of the TX-1 data center project, as well as another $140 million within 10 years.

The project will generate at least 30 new jobs paying $67,500 a year within the first three years, then an additional 100 jobs within 10 years.

"With our focus on the renewable energy industry, it is very appropriate that Pflugerville's first data center will be powered by 100 percent green energy," PCDC executive director Floyd Akers said in a statement. "In addition to a large number of high-paying jobs, we will also have a dramatic amount of construction at this Pflugerville location during the next 10 years."

The data center will be designed to exceed Tier-III requirements, will offer fully redundant (2N) electrical distribution, and offer utility feeds / transformers, generators, UPS, and PDUs for each suite.

Once completed, the data center will be fully powered by renewable wind energy provided by WindData's parent company, Baryonyx Corporation, resulting in a PUE of below 1.40.

"We see the city's proximity to the growing Austin business community and its location in a deregulated energy market as the key drivers in our decision to develop future facilities in Pflugerville," Baryonyx Corporation CEO Ian Hatton said in a statement.

Construction on the facility is expected to begin some time in 2012.