[CPEO-BIF] Former U.S. Steel site, Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pennsylvania company hopes brownfield becomes data center gold
‘Advanced’ data center looks to fill market void

by Drew Amorosi
Datacenter Dynamics
November 19, 2014

Keystone NAP, a nascent co-location and managed IT services provider,  
has announced plans for what it calls the "first advanced data  
center" in the Northeastern US region. The year-old company is led by  
seasoned tech executive Peter B. Ritz, and expects the 180,000-sq ft  
data center to begin functional operation by early 2015.

Located on the former US Steel site in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania,  
in close proximity to the Delaware River, Keystone NAP is banking on  
its location and access to steady power supplies as being an  
attraction to potential customers. The re-purposed industrial site  
has an onsite power plant, in addition to five other power feeds,  
including facilities operated by PECO, PSE&G, and Exelon.

...

Tax incentives are another added benefit of the former US Steel site.  
Now a part of the Keystone Industrial Port Complex, companies like  
Keystone NAP who locate to the site - much of which has undergone  
remediation efforts for contamination by the Environmental Protection  
Agency - can benefit from up to 14 years of tax exemptions.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/11/pennsylvania- 
company-hopes-brownfield-becomes-data-center-gold

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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