Cloud Computing: Check out some of the new data center hotspots

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Stacey Higginbotham.

Data centers are the manufacturing floor of the web and cloud computing, so it makes sense that the amount of data center capacity added in the last two years as been measured in millions of square feet. But where it’s added is changing.

The demand for data centers just isn’t subsiding. And to serve the companies that can’t build their own data centers, there’s there has been a boom in retail co-location space around the world, according to Telegeography. The places in which this boom is happening may surprise you…

While traditional data center locales such as New York and San Francisco are getting new data centers, non-traditional places such as Bangalore, Austin, Texas and Hong Kong are also seeing big increases in data center capacity. Austin, my hometown, saw the largest gain, with a mere two providers –Data Foundry and CyrusOne — adding over a million square feet of raised floor space from 2010 to 2012. The addition of a massive amount of space driven by one or two vendors is a trend of sorts, with Bangalore’s 937,000 new square feet provided almsot entirely by one company — Tulip…

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