Seattle and the Pacific Northwest have become one of North America’s most important data center regions, driven by Amazon Web Services (headquartered in Seattle), Microsoft (Redmond), and the availability of cheap, clean hydroelectric power from the Columbia River basin. Pacific Northwest Data Center Geography Seattle Metro Area Seattle (SoDo/Industrial District): Legacy enterprise data centers and

The New York–New Jersey corridor is North America’s second-largest data center market by installed capacity, anchored by the massive concentration of facilities in northern New Jersey (particularly the Secaucus/Jersey City/Parsippany corridor) just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The NJ Data Center Corridor Northern New Jersey hosts more data center capacity per square mile than

Commissioning is the structured process of verifying that a data center’s infrastructure systems are designed, installed, tested, and operating as intended. A qualified commissioning agent (CxA) is your independent quality assurance partner — separate from both the designer and the contractor. This guide explains what commissioning agents do, what to look for when hiring one,