Agenda - Economic Development Authority - 11/08/2012

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Site selection Aspects such as proximity to available power grids, telecommunications infrastructure, networking services, transportation lines and emergency services can affect costs, risk, security and other factors to be taken into consideration for data center design. Location affects data center design also because the climatic conditions dictate what cooling technologies should be deployed. In turn this impacts uptime and the costs associated with cooling. For example, the topology and the cost of managing a data center in a warm, humid climate will vary greatly from managing one in a cool, dry climate. Energy Use Energy use is a central issue for data centers. Power draw for data centers ranges from a few kW for a rack of servers in a closet to several tens of MW for large facilities. Some facilities have power densities more than 100 times that of a typical office building. For higher power density facilities, electricity costs are a dominant operating expense and account for over 10% of the total cost of ownership of a data center. By 2012 the cost of power for the data center is expected to exceed the cost of the original capital investment. Recent Minnesota Maior Data Center Successes Recent data center activity in Minnesota includes the following projects: United Health Group Thomson Reuters Target United Health Group Unisys Iron Gate Solutions • Page 3 Chaska Eagan Elk River Elk River Eagan Woodbury 2010 2007 2007 2007 2007 2010 250,000 sf 50,000 sf 161,300 sf 237,000 sf 130,000 sf 80,000 sf $250 million $140 million $125 million $125 million