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STONE MOUNTAIN DATAPLEX |
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CONSTRUCTION PLAN |
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2009 - 2013 |
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Year |
New Construction |
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Phase 1 |
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2009 |
84,000 sf of Data Center Buildings |
Q3 2009 |
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6,400 Network Operations Center / Administration
/ Security |
Q3 2009 |
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Phase 2 |
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2010 |
250,000 sf of Subterranean Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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24,000 sf Visitor/Conference Center |
Jan - Dec |
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50,000 sf of Data Center Buildings |
Jan - Dec |
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50,000 sf Office Space |
Jan - Dec |
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12,000 sf Maintenance Building |
Jan - Dec |
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12,000 sf Vehicle Maintenance Facility |
Jan - Dec |
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Water Storage and Treatment Facility |
Jan - Dec |
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50,000 sf Warehouse |
Jan - Dec |
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Management & Other Infrastructure |
Jan - Dec |
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Phase 3 |
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2011 |
250,000 sf of Subterranean Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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50,000 sf Conventional Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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100,000 sf Office Space |
Jan - Dec |
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60,000 sf Cafeteria/Meeting facility |
Jan - Dec |
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12,000 sf Medical/Dental/Vision |
Jan - Dec |
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Phase 4 |
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2012 |
400,000 sf of Subterranean Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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100,000 sf Conventional Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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Phase 5 |
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2013 |
400,000 sf of Subterranean Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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100,000 sf Conventional Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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Phase 6 |
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2013 |
400,000 sf of Subterranean Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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100,000 sf Conventional Data Center Space |
Jan - Dec |
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Additional Phases 7 and on will be built out
through 2018 |
First the plateau had
to be cleared and leveled. You can see one of the dozen
entrances into the interior of the mountain in top left
hand side of the picture. These openings are over
24 feet high and 20 feet wide and will be sealed behind
solid steel blast doors and concrete bunkers.
An enormous amount of
prep work had to be done before starting actual
construction
Then conduit trenches
and footings and foundations had to be blasted out of
the stone
Footings and foundations then had to be set in place
Conduits buried underground from the NOC building to
the 7 Data Centers in Phase 1
Built on top of
solid stone bedrock a steel reinforced slab with over
250 lb per sq inch concrete slab is laid. Also, a
solid steel and concrete sealed cap is put for several
feet above the slab to seal out any moisture beneath
what will be the 24 inch raised computer flooring with
special drains put in as well.
The entire building
is built specifically for hardened and secure housing of
Data Center equipment.
Huge steel girders and
steel cross beams are put in place to support the second
floor concrete slab at the same weight bearing load as the first floor slab.
This will be repeated again for the concrete roof slab.
Ceiling heights on both floors are at 17 foot and the
roof has penthouse buildings for UPS and HVAC units
Very tight spacing is
used on the steel structure to increase the load bearing
capacity of the floors to well above the required
strengths. As the construction
continues, the site becomes more secure and photography
is no longer allowed
Security is a major issue at Stone Mountain.
Stone Mountains security plans include guard towers,
regular and random foot and vehicle security patrols,
perimeter fencing with sensors, ground radar, infrared
cameras, motion detection, biometric access controls,
remote IP based video and audio monitoring, license
plate recognition systems, vehicle barrier systems,
guarded gates, onsite fire and EMS personnel, on site
SWAT quick response team, EMF shielding and blast proof
doors, and multiple other layers of physical and
electronic security measures as well as multiple tiers
of electronic network security.
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