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What’s Really Driving Edge Data Center Market Increases (Hint: It’s Not 5G)

The edge data center market is projected to grow by 23% over the next 6 years, but what is driving the trend? Here’s the true driver behind increase...

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Supporting Diversity in Data Center Construction

Learn how Compass Datacenters is tapping into an underutilized resource in data center construction — women.

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Understanding Difference in Edge Data Centers

Understand the differences in edge data centers and how they meet the demand for additional capacity, reduced latency, and data security.

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Reducing our Carbon Footprint with CarbonCure Concrete

Learn more about why Compass uses CarbonCure concrete in our data centers

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Data Center Construction Process: Building Efficiency Into Everything We Do

Compass is known for its fast-paced data center builds. We’re a hyper-speed developer in a hyperscale environment. Building efficiency into everythi...

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Why a Dallas/Fort Worth Data Center?

The Dallas/Fort Worth region is one of the largest and most active data center markets in the United States. Compass serves this market via two data c...

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Building for What’s Next: Phoenix Data Centers

Learn about the thinking behind our Phoenix, AZ campus.

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Why a Phoenix Data Center?

Phoenix metro area's emergence as major data center location is based on many factors attractive to hyperscale and cloud providers including Compass.

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The International Data Center Development Boom

Data center development has been focused to just a few key markets where supply and contractors were reliable and accessible. But that is changing.

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Why Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is without question the nation's data center Mecca. Compass Datacenters discusses what makes this area so valuable to data.

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Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Virtual Commissioning

Assessing the construction process of data centers with virtual commissioning using a skeleton crew on-site, a lot of video and sensor equipment, and ...

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Building for What’s Next Means Planning Ahead

Learn about the thinking behind our Northern Virginia campus

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