Chaska Planning Commission

Where the data center is discussed

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• ▶ ~2:22:16…that county road which provides access to the west creek corporate center which is the development area that has been developed into solely data centers out there this site would also be located off of west creek lane and be the largest lot off of the west creek lane and west creek corporate center development so there…
• ▶ ~2:22:31…f of west creek lane and be the largest lot off of the west creek lane and west creek corporate center development so there's industrial or data centers that about the southern side there is an existing substation on the southwest portion of the site or abutting the southwest portion we have rural residential on the we…
• ▶ ~2:23:34…rovals were done for the west creek corporate center for the first second and third editions so this involved the construction of the three data centers that exist out there today one of them being united health groups data center which is a 250 000 square foot building you have stream data 115 000 square feet and then…
• ▶ ~2:23:40…hird editions so this involved the construction of the three data centers that exist out there today one of them being united health groups data center which is a 250 000 square foot building you have stream data 115 000 square feet and then strength stream data to also 115 000 square feet in size this site did go thro…
• ▶ ~2:24:10…ta that was approved on this site and then they subsequently came back in 2017 for their preliminary approvals and rezoning of the site for data center so they proposed four separate data center buildings during that 2017 concept or preliminary plan they did not come back for final approvals so hence why we're seeing a…
• ▶ ~2:25:54…t will be extended to access the site so what they're asking for is concept plan approval for the construction of a 1.4 million square foot data center they did hold a neighborhood meeting all the way back in february of this year to introduce the project to abutting property owners the main concerns and questions that…
• ▶ ~2:26:39…e showing the cul-de-sac to be moved onto their property so that that can be located within public right-of-way and much like how the other data centers are oriented is they will propose a private drive off of that cul-de-sac which would have a security gate near the private drive access there for people to access the…
• ▶ ~2:27:10…ion to be able to access that site this would be obviously it would work with fire life safety on this right yep so much like how the other data centers were evaluated this still stays in line with kind of the orientation and access to these sites in terms of emergency the building again is 1.4 million square feet in s…
• ▶ ~2:28:06…e north side of the building where the main parking lot is oriented they are proposing a total of 226 stalls what we tend to see with these data centers is they don't generate a huge traffic component with them these tend to be buildings that don't have your typical employee workflow or traffic flow in and out of the b…
• ▶ ~2:28:57…quipment within it so again the parking component may not look right in terms of the size of this building but what we've seen on the other data center projects just to the south here is that they do tend to have much lower parking demands just due to the the type of vehicle and traffic flow that they get into these bu…
• ▶ ~2:33:02…ms of the building design and what's being proposed there the design and the materials proposed are very similar to kind of the latest data data centers for stream data so they're looking at a building that would be composed of glass stainless steel paneling and metal cabling to incorporate a green wall to basically gr…
• ▶ ~2:41:45…he west so pearl it's driving the difference is similar to what the practice has been so far for the birmingham the buffer area between the data centers and the cold bridge neighborhood is that as development has occurred that birmingham has been required to develop for for example today the berming that's being propos…
• ▶ ~2:42:56…hough right now we have it zoned a specific way where we know it's going to be a residential area of some sort it's not going to be another data center it's not going to be just like just like this area was guided for industrial and when the clover ridge neighborhood came in um you know we knew that that was going to b…
• ▶ ~2:50:13…le skewed because you know if you plant for the future you're going to spend living the next 10 years looking straight into the back of the data center no matter how it looks beautiful for a 1.4 million square foot facility so not saying but it's a very large building that's in their backyard that will be a straight sh…
• ▶ ~2:54:02…lizes in the design development and operation of best-in-class carrier neutral which means multiple fiber providers per building hyperscale data centers facilities data center facilities meaning housing equipment used for the storage and utilization of data by the world's largest internet companies since our inception…
• ▶ ~2:54:20…zation of data by the world's largest internet companies since our inception in 2016 our team has built at least 2.4 million square feet of data center space comprised of 320 megawatts of capacity across six buildings our global headquarters is located in washington dc and our european headquarters is in london we have…
• ▶ ~2:55:06…ing cloudhq our ceo and management team founded and operated dupont fabros technology from 1996 to 2017 when it was acquired by the largest data center reit digital realty dft completed 12 data centers in virginia the chicago area and santa clara california and as well as planned developments in toronto phoenix and ore…
• ▶ ~2:55:47…have another one in process right now about the same size in virginia i just want to talk a little bit about some of the other benefits of data center projects so in addition to the design elements that that we're using to ensure the project will be a benefit to the community there's other many other aspects of data c…
• ▶ ~2:56:01…n to the design elements that that we're using to ensure the project will be a benefit to the community there's other many other aspects of data center development that brings great value to the city and other surrounding areas as well some of the major ones are increasing property tax base increase in job jobs coupled…
• ▶ ~2:56:40…employ approximately 1 000 construction workers during that time many of these employees are highly skilled technical positions needed for data center construction and much of the time frame for this project while it is one and a half to two years total will be work internal to the building so once the shell is comple…
• ▶ ~2:59:14…ut 75 percent fewer traffic trips than a distribution type use of the same size and much fewer large trucks in general it is rare for these data center buildings to have more than 100 employees in them at any given time given that there's it's a 24-hour facility there's people coming in at different shifts hence the sl…
• ▶ ~3:06:53…poke no that's fine i just want to understand what it is exactly i looked it up i yeah i'm in industrial real estate but i'm not i don't do data centers i haven't heard of you yeah so the fan looked up to understand if you provide the service or if you provide the building infrastructure for people to come use this ser…
• ▶ ~3:08:39…se are fully enclosed so there's a lot of mitigation measures you can put in on those units to limit the noise and the good thing about the data center industry is those are only emergency use generators we have other backup electrical systems in place that are used before we have to move to the generators sure so that…
• ▶ ~3:11:02…like a tour facility i've been through biotech buildings and logistics centers i've been in a full medical space suit i've never been in a data center okay um with that like to could i uh anyone want to make a motion yeah i'll go ahead motion to approve the concept plan for cloud headquarters pc 2022-41 subject to the…