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enable me to effectively lead the company toward continued growth and success.” Tom Brown is DataGryd’s President and CEO, responsible for planning and implementing the company’s strategy, and managing the overall revenue growth of the company. Mr. Brown joined DataGryd in 2018 and brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in start-up, turnaround and high-growth operations. Now both power and space are a premium here in New York City, so we have a direct feed from the electric utility to our facility. “Our direct relationship with the electric utility means we don’t have to go through a third party. So, in the unlikely event that the building power goes down, we would not be touched by that event in any way. This is a mission-critical requirement to have network diversity and power diversity, especially for some of the hyperscale players who are deploying their own networks on dark fiber. There are also an additional five megawatts we will allocate towards the sixth floor at 60 Hudson Street. That power is quite significant; it allows us to engineer the building to suit.” Now, aside from the 120,000 squarefeet of total data center space, there’s
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another 55,000 square-feet of support infrastructure that lives in DataGryd’s own space. They have a 13,200 Volt connection with Con Ed in their mezzanine space, from which they distribute diverse feeds to the third-floor space. They distribute power diversely to all their customer floors from that third floor. It’s an efficient design because it allows DataGryd to send any amount of power to any place of our floors in the building. Tom did tell us that they are not a “cross connect fee” driven company. They are working to help their customers grow by providing 4-inch conduit on their floors to help their customers connect with partners. Datagryd has selected Clune Construction, to build DataGryd’s MegaSuite 6. With more than twenty years of experience working on major mission-critical projects nationwide, Clune brings its expertise to the iconic 60 Hudson Street building, which will be transformed into New York City’s most modern and efficient high-density, high-performance data center solution available in that market. DataGryd’s MegaSuite 6 is expected to be ready for occupancy by the third quarter of 2019 . “DataGryd’s selection of Clune Construction as our general contractor for the build out of MegaSuite 6 is a testament to their outstanding track
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record for successfully delivering superior projects on time,” says Tom Brown, President and CEO of DataGryd. “As a result, we are committed to providing our customers near limitless scalability in the heart of New York City’s most concentrated hub of global data networking solutions.” Upon completion of MegaSuite 6, DataGryd’s customers will benefit from cost-effective megawatt configurations, supported by 5,000 kilowatts (kW) of utility power generators and towers. Located within 60 Hudson Street, globally renowned world-class carrier hotel, DataGryd’s customers will be able to directly connect to over 300 carriers, network providers, exchanges and more than six fully operational subsea systems anchored within the building without incurring monthly cross connect fees. With a zero monthly cross connect fee model, DataGryd customers benefit from tremendous cost savings that could reach tens of thousands of dollars across the lifetime of an agreement. “Clune is excited to play such a big part in one of the largest data center construction projects taking place in Manhattan,” adds Ben Walker, Executive Managing Director and President of Clune’s Eastern Region. “We are looking forward to working with DataGryd and their customers to bring their vision for MegaSuite 6 to reality.”