Data Centers Migrate to NYC's Exurbs
Posted by: Taub Urban Research Center
Thanks to: Telecom-Cities Research Network Taub Urban Research Center, New York University
Thanks to: Telecom-Cities Research Network Taub Urban Research Center, New York University
7 September 2000 - 5:00am
There has been a lively trade in New York converting old industrial buildings to telecom hotels. Now they're moving far from the urban core.
While many of Manhattan's old industrial buildings have been reconceived as housing for the infrastructure of the Internet Economy, large facilities that house web servers are setting up shop far from the urban core.
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Plans for Upstate 'Server Farm'
Source:
The New York Times, September 6, 2000
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