Dive summary:
- A 32-story building that once served people in the Verizon telephone business is being put to new use by Sabey Data Center Properties, serving data-storage equipment instead.
- The reuse will make it the world's tallest data center (see photos here), and it will have 600,000 square feet of space.
- The first phase of the makeover is done, and the New York Genome Center is using 1,000 square feet for its data storage.
From the article:
Sabey ... worked with Callison to design and engineer the facility, which is called Integrate.Manhattan. ...