Amazon appears to be planning to further expand its US data center footprint to meet growing demand for cloud computing services.
Based on a new proposal (PDF) submitted to the city of Gilroy in Santa Clara County, California, the cloud computing giant plans to build a new site that will eventually house two data center buildings.
These new data centers would expand AWS availability on the West Coast and are each expected to have a capacity of up to 49 MW of equipment plus a security building and backup generating facilities, according to a new report from The Register.
Amazon also announced last month that it would spend €1,800 billion ($2,360 billion) over the next two years to expand its UK data centers. Meanwhile, Google recently announced its own plan to invest €9.5 billion in office and data center infrastructure projects in the US this year.
Gilroy Data Center Facility
Amazon's new Gilroy Data Center (GDC) facility in California will be built in two phases if given the green light by the city of Gilroy.
The company expects the first phase, which will consist of a single-story data center building, on-site substation, security building and battery energy storage system, to be operational by 2023. The second phase it will involve the creation of another 218,000 square foot single-story data center building and is expected to be built within four to seven years after the completion of the first phase, depending on customer demand.
While the phase one data center will use diesel-powered backup generators, Amazon intends to use alternative backup generation technologies for its phase two data center. One reason is that the company's new facility will be located on farmland outside Gilroy that it bought in 2020 for €31,3 million.
However, according to local media reports, the City of Gilroy is in the process of soliciting bids from outside consultants in an effort to determine the potential environmental impact of installing Amazon's Gilroy data center before approving the project.
We'll likely hear more from Amazon when its new Gilroy Data Center facility is approved and moves into the construction phase.
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