Ij lake, Amsterdam, 2013
Amsterdam’s Next Data Center Clusters Will Be Built Out of Town The city is out of space and power, and there are signs of government and industry agreement on a new location. Now, they have to convince the public.
Amsterdam is preparing to build its next cluster of data centers in a neighboring county, after officials and experts concluded that the capital does not have the space to accommodate the mushrooming number of gigantic hi-tech warehouses nor the electricity to satisfy their extraordinary power load.
The group that effectively made the decision has been tackling the dilemma of where to put Amsterdam s data centers for the last three years. Pending a final, formal decision, they will be built in Almere and Zeewolde, counties wrought from the sea with dam walls on Amsterdam s Eastern flank in the 1960s. Their spacious province, Flevoland, has become home to growing wind farms and new towns. Official studies have declared it the best spot