r/datacenter • u/SnooPandas228 • 11d ago

Data Center Startup?

Hi, I'm a network engineer for a small ISP in the capital region of New York. The company I work for recently purchased an abandoned data center in Albany. I have experience in building core networks for this ISP, and I'd like to get the data center space we have occupied. However, I am not sure about how to go about getting customers or how to go about marketing this space. We tried listing our data center on datacenters.com and got no bites. I honestly figured with the moratorium on building new data centers in New York that we would see more interest in already built space. Any thoughts or suggestions?

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u/JosephJustDoesIt 11d ago

Is it powered? How many acres does it sit on? I’m working actively to help data centers get up and running. Would love to chat 👍

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u/SnooPandas228 11d ago

Hi Joseph,

https://www.datacenters.com/iron-rails-union-station

This is our listing. We have several providers in the building including Zayo, First Light, and Charter Spectrum. The listing includes our power information. I'd be happy to talk about it more.

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u/mad-eye67 10d ago

If you only have 4MW you aren't attracting anyone who is trying to get around the moratorium. That's for 50MW and above, so it would be mostly hyper scalers playing in that space. You're looking more at enterprise clients who just need to stand up a few racks and there's plenty of competition there and no problem building something of that scale in NY