Armour Hosting
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Chicago is one of the most connected cities in the world, and it's central location makes it the optimum location for serving Internet content. Chicago serves as one of North America's largest Internet hubs and is home to every major network provider. Most of the fiber optics that connect the East and West coasts of the United States run through Chicago and this yields low latency to both coasts as well as to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Chicago was recently rated the greenest city in the US for datacenter locations. A recent study showed Chicago was much more energy efficient and produced only a small fraction of carbon emissions than other datacenter locations. Chicago was also recently ranked one of the safest cities in the United States with a very low risk for natural disasters ahead of other cities in Texas, California, Florida and the East Coast - all of which have a much greater risk for hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and floods than Chicago.
Datacenter Statistics
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- 3 3000 Amp, 480 Volt, 3 phase power feeds from multiple sub-stations
- 3 2 MegaWatt (MW) Electrical Generators
- 4 500 KVA UPS systems
- 4 300 Ton Chillers
- Automatic logic monitoring of all critical equipment
- 24x7 Security staffing, digital cameras, data tracking and recording
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