Bluebird Network buys ColoHub data center in Quad Cities, Iowa
Located in Quad Cities, Iowa, the 57,000-square-foot, 6 MW ColoHub facility - a former grocery store previously used for Bitcoin mining, according to a Vice report - will give the company an equidistant stop between Midwestern state capitals in Chicago, Illinois, and U.S. Des Moines, Iowa, and strengthen their presence in the Quad City.
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Prior to the purchase, the company had only one data center, the Bluebird Underground Data Center, which is embedded in an old converted mine in Springfield, Missouri. The company is currently in the process of expanding it to twice its original capacity. According to Bluebird, the underground site will be a Tier III site.
The original facility is connected to Bluebird's 15,771 km fiber and broadband network that runs through Chicago, Kansas City, Tulsa (Oklahoma), Memphis (Tennessee), Rock Port (Missouri) and Rockford (Illinois) Higher infrastructure densities in Illinois and Iowa and points of presence at 151 locations in the Midwest.
The new data center will help provide redundant, low-latency services to its growing customer base in the Quad City region, for which it has everything from Internet and Ethernet through to dark fiber and Cloud Connect services offered. The company recently launched the Springfield Internet Exchange (SpringIX), which is available in its underground data center.
The company has densified and expanded fiber networks across many areas of the Midwest in 2020 reported company President and CEO Michael Morey. He said the diversity of their offerings, now expanded across a second plant site, is part of their mission to support businesses and provide comprehensive solutions for easy communications."
Bluebird has been growing its network in a deliberate and consistent way for a long time, added Mike McClain, Geneseo's CEO. They are aware that Bluebird and the team will use the great work of ColoHub to take their knowledge and skills to another level, supporting their current and new customers in the best way possible, according to Bluebird's standards of integrity and adaptation."
Michael Morey, president and CEO of Bluebird Network, said the expansion of our 40-km fiber route, which integrates existing networks, was recently completed a total communications solution. "
Mike McClain, president and CEO of Genese, added that "Bluebird has been steadily expanding its network for years in a dedicated and sustainable manner" and asserts that "Bluebird and the leadership team will leverage ColoHub's great work and use its capabilities to new heights with outstanding support for our customers - both current and future - in keeping with Bluebird's standards for integrity, accountability and adaptability."
