The proposed facilities will be based in Clonshaugh Close, where there is already the former Ricoh building which Amazon is seeking to demolish and replace with 'Data Centre A' and 'Data Ce The campus, if approved, could contain upto eight ASW data centres. The campus is located Northwest of Dublin.
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Both of these factors were at play in the unincorporated area of northern Virginia known as Tysons Corner, an area just far away enough from Washington to be relatively safe from nuclear attack but close enough to remain accessible.
The particular alignments of highways that eventually connected Dulles International Airport in Virginia to the Capitol Beltway basically made this pocket of northern Virginia the first and last place for any commercial activities between the airport and D.
Thanks to that concentration of network companies and a whole lot of support from the National Science Foundation, Tysons Corner became home to MAE-East, one of the earliest Internet exchanges and home to the foundation of what would become that Internet backbone.
Networks build atop networks, and the presence of this backbone in Tysons Corner led to more backbone, more tech companies, and more data centers. Today, up to 70 percent of Internet traffic worldwide travels through this region, as the Loudon county economic-development board cheerfully notes in its marketing materials.
An unfathomable amount of that traffic is from AWS. In , a now-lost blog post by network-intelligence startup DeepField estimated that on average, one-third of all daily Internet usage accesses a site running on AWS.
Over the last three years, that percentage has most likely only increased. According to Amazon lore, few within the company really anticipated the scale and impact of the service when it launched—they were mostly trying to solve an internal company problem, namely speeding up deployment of new applications and services.
The solution was to make that build-up of the basic development infrastructure something that could be rapidly deployed and scaled as needed. AWS emerged out of the recognition that the services Amazon needed also met a growing industry need for web-scale application infrastructure. Reporting on AWS history rarely spends much time on the data centers themselves.
Over the last decade Amazon has undertaken a massive expansion in Northern Virginia to provision more capacity to keep pace with the growth of the AWS cloud.
This translates into jobs and spending to construct and operate the facilities, as well as tax revenue for local communities. Here are some key data points on the employment and tax impact of its data centers in Northern Virginia and the counties where AWS has focused its investment:.
A chart of construction employment to support Amazon Web Services data center projects in Virginia. Image: Amazon. Why is Amazon making these disclosures? The audience is clearly public officials and residents in the communities where AWS is locating its data centers. Google and Facebook have also released reports on the economic benefits of their data center projects. In , Greenpeace called out AWS , saying its adoption of green power is falling behind the growth of its cloud infrastructure in Northern Virginia.
Since then the company has invested heavily in renewable energy , recently reaching 10 Gigawatts of solar and wind power. Public scrutiny of large data center projects is now commonplace, as residents pay close attention to their impact on the environment, public resources, and quality of life.
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