Don't expect the Newark facility to achieve a "silver" or "gold"LEED rating; datacenters are huge power suckers. The aggregateconsumption by servers and data centers in the US has more thandoubled since 2000 to about 45 billion kilowatt hours ofelectricity in 2005, accounting for about 1.2% of the country'selectricity consumption, roughly equal to the power drawn by thenation's color televisions.

"We're going for the initial base certification and, dependingon that experience, we might move up the stack to silver or goldeither in future builds or in Newark," Miles Kelly, VP of corporatestrategy for 365 Main, tells GlobeSt.com.

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