'Cloudy' Forecast Is Good News for Las Vegas Data Center Builders
For a place that gets sunshine nearly 300 days a year, you can now find a lot of clouds in Las Vegas. One of the economic bright spots in a city laid low by the recession and real estate bust is a spate of new data centers and cloud computing facilities in development and recently brought online to serve clients such as Google, eBay, DreamWorks, Sony and Cisco.
Attracted by the area's reliable electrical grid, business-friendly environment and proximity to California, several companies have set up shop in Southern Nevada to meet the fast-growing demand for off-site computing and data storage.