Last week we launched a special report series on the Northern Virginia data center market. This week we’ll look at the background and history of the NoVa data center market, as well as some key market updates.
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Why is Ashburn, which lies about 30 miles west of Washington in Loudoun County, such an important site? It was home to MAE-East, the Internet’s first major interconnection point. As a startup, Equinix built its first data center in Ashburn in 1998, providing a carrier-neutral facility where companies’ networks could tap into Internet backbones.
The Equinix campus quickly become the web’s busiest meeting place,…
