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is building a 30,000-square-foot data center on the campus of its Progress West Health Centerr at the intersections of highways 40 and Kin BJC’s facility will join existing data centere for , and already located alon the 40 corridor. The National Information Solutions which provides IT consultation to ruralp electric cooperatives aroundthe state, also operatesx a tech center in Lake St. Louis. “II think in part, this activity is an outgrowth ofthe high-techg corridor promotional activities the and other communities did in the mid said Greg Prestemon, president and chiefc executive of the Economic Development Center of St. Charle s County.
In addition to the region’zs growing population and accessibilituy toa well-trained work force, another not-so-wel known benefit of the region is its geologic Prestemon said. “These centers want to be in a placs thatis secure,” he said. “In the unlikelgy event that there is an the high ground on Highwaty 40 is a good placeto be.” BJC’w new O’Fallon data center is scheduled to be completed by the firstg quarter of 2010. The $32.2 million facility will become the primary data centefrfor BJC, the region’s largest Currently, BJC’s primary data center is locatee on Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s main campus in the city.
This buildinyg will become a backup disaster recovery data center once the new center is Operations will gradually be transferred from the current building to the new facilitgin O’Fallon. Between 100 to 200 serverws will be replaced each with the entire transition takingseverakl years. “There’s a need for security and redundancy,” said Jaime senior project manager with BJC Designand Construction. “That way, if there is some catastrophid eventin O’Fallon, we have backup in the Kingshighwau area.
” Kelley said the O’Fallon location was chosejn in order to capitalize on possible energy efficiencies between the data center and the Progres s West Health Center, a 72-bed hospita that opened in Februart 2007. “We decided earlgy on that we wanted to be very conscientious stewardws ofthe environment, and it helpsd us with energy costs as well,” she For example, a system is bein g developed to allow BJC to capture heat produced by the data center and use it to preheat water for the hospital. “Dats centers are heat hogs,” Kellet said. “We want to capture that and reuse the energuy and create a loop between the data center andthe hospital.
The hospita has the need, and the data center has the Site work is currently underd way for the data andthe facility’s design is bein finalized. Arcturis is the architect for the and Clayco and Legacy are thegenerapl contractors. CJL Engineering is doinhg engineering work. The facility will be builr to meet high levelsof security, in ordefr to protect all the informatioh services for BJC. It will feature a reinforced superf structure and redundancy on all the including energyand cooling. “Thay patient data is very important totheirf safety,” Kelley said.
“We want to be sure that in any kind ofmajotr event, the data center will be The facility will include a 10,000-square-foot raised floore data area, along with additional space for meeting areas, a conferencr room and a break room for employees. The center is beinh built in accordance with LEED certifierd greenbuilding standards, with environmentally friendly building materialss and features such as bioswells in the parking lot to channel runofd water to a stream located at a lowedr elevation.
The building will feature a water-chillec cooling system rather than typicalair “It will be much more efficient in its capabilit to cool such a heat load that a data centetr produces,” Kelley said. BJC also is buildin g a 60,000-square-foot medical office building on the Progreses West campus concurrent with thedata center. Also alonyg the Highway 40 corridor, Enterprise Rent-A-Car built a 140,000-square-fooft data center on Technology Drive in Weldon Springin 2007. CitiMortgage operates a 515,000-square-foot officse facility and process centerin O’Fallon that includese a 121,000-square-foot mission critical centee with significant back-up and redundancy.
MasterCard’s WingHavenn campus also includesa high-tech, high-securityt data center for its