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September 11, 2014

Server farm industry grows in Cleveland

  • Data center developers like the area's cheap power, abundance of fiber-optic cable and industries that use massive amounts of data.
  • By MARK GILLISPIE
    Associated Press

    CLEVELAND — Northeast Ohio is hardly ready to usurp Silicon Valley as a high-tech mecca, but a growing number of data centers are choosing to locate in and around Cleveland to take advantage of cheap power, an abundance of fiber-optic cable and one of the safest environments in the country for storing digital information.

    BYTEGRID, which got its start in northern Virginia, is investing millions to convert a small data center near downtown Cleveland into a large one capable of using enough electricity to power around 20,000 homes. At least one other company is looking for a site in Cleveland, and several more have established sites in the city and its suburbs.


     
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