It may never rival Silicon Valley, but Mesa is fast becoming Data Center Alley.
Several global companies are at various stages of plans to start crunching and storing data in southeast Mesa.
Most people have heard of Google and Apple â RagingWire, not so much.
And many around Mesa have heard Apple already has a sprawling data center and Google is planning an even bigger one around southeast Mesaâs Elliot Technology Corridor, which runs along the north side of Eastmark.
But while the secretive Google is taking its time on a project Mayor John Giles and Mesa City Council were crowing about two years ago, RagingWire is already building along Elliot Road.
Washington’s tech industry hasn’t been immune to the pandemic. Companies such as the IT giant DXC and the event-organizing platform Cvent cut jobs amid the slowdown. But some, including the hot cloud-computing company Appian, committed to hundreds of new hires.
Indeed, plenty of other good business news came from Washingtonian’s Tech Titans during the past year. Our 2021 winners who were selected through both reporting and an informal process of nominations from their peers managed to start up new and innovative companies, close on huge funding rounds, ink massive contracts, and announce initial public offerings.
Some of this year’s Tech Titans expanded their companies not only in spite of the pandemic but because of it. Michael Chasen, founder of the “edtech” firm Blackboard, leveraged the demand for at-home education to launch Class, a company that creates virtual classrooms using Zoom. Class has already raised more than $40 million. Blake Hall, founder of ID.me, wh
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Google is investing heavily in building data centers that power its products and cloud services.
That, plus higher demand during the coronavirus pandemic, means it s hiring aggressively.
The firm is looking for workers with strong critical thinking and collaborative work skills.
On an average work day at one of Google s data center sites in Virginia, operations manager Dr. Nicole Henley conducts tasks like adding hard drives or swapping out memory on the machines, fixing bugs, or troubleshooting issues like downtime.
Google operates data centers in 9 countries worldwide, which power products like search, and has 24 cloud regions that provide services to Google Cloud customers.
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It is overwhelmingly evident that the pandemic has redefined the way many businesses operate. The seismic shift to video conferencing, cloud collaboration, streaming, etc. has sparked unprecedented growth in demand for data center capacity. According to a recent Data Center Frontier article, Buddy Rizer, who serves as the Executive Director of Economic Development for Loudoun County, Va. (a.k.a. Data Center Alley), stated, “This year [2020] has been crazy. We’ve had 26 fast-track (data center construction) projects since March. Normally, we’ll have 15 in an entire year, so that’s more than twice as many projects than ever before”. No doubt this is encouraging for all involved in the data center space; but this do