70% of Internet traffic flows through Ashburn’s pipes. That is equal to 2.2 trillion Google searches and 16.8 million WalMart shoppers zipping through Loudoun County each day. You’d think that kind of traffic would happen in Silicon Valley, Sacramento, or maybe even Chicago. Clearly, being so near the birthplace of the Internet has its advantages. Local data centers continue to pop up. That really shouldn’t come as a surprise. With the recent boom in data (90% of the world’s data has been created in the past couple of years) colocation is on the rise.

1. ASHBURN, VIRGINIA
COLOCATION GROWTH
The Center of the Internet
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New York, NY
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Intelishift weathered
Hurricane Sandy
...and yet, Intelishift grew 70%
The largest storm-related
100
power outage in history!
ASHBURN
VIRGINIA
70
%
%
Guaranteed Uptime
Loudoun County
of the world’s
Internet traffic passes
successfully through
ASHBURN, VA.
ASHBURN is the communications gateway to Europe.
Largest Internet peering point in North America.
JUST PASSING THROUGH!
48 petabytes of data
NO traffic jams in ASHBURN!
®
2.2 trillion Google searches every day.
THE UNITED STATES
is the SAFEST
data center
location
worldwide.
ASHBURN
is SAFE and
celebrated as
technologically
advanced.
90% of the world’s data
was created
in the past
2 years ALONE!
Storage needs to support
the growth will increase.
Worldwide:
1.8 Zettabytes of data was created in 2011
That is equal to every U.S. citizen
Medical Devices
RFID Readers
Cameras
Sensors in Clothing
Smart Buildings
?
tweeting 3X per minute for 26,976 years.
WHO CREATES ALL THAT DATA?... IT’S NOT JUST PEOPLE!
ASHBURN IS THE 4TH LARGEST
data center density in the US.
9 OUT OF 10 TOP GLOBAL CDNs
84
%
68
70%
%
Los Angeles
Dallas
Chicago
51
Ashburn
Miami
42
Seattle
Houston
36%
49
Santa Clara
46
%
%
%
%
...are located in ASHBURN.
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with infrastructure needs?
nationwide with featured locations in
Ashburn, DC, Chicago, Silicon Valley and Sacramento.
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Sources: Wikibon Blog; The Culturalist; Datacentermapping.com; www.cushmanwakefield.us/en/news; Computerworld;
Science Daily; Computerworld; Wikipedia; IDC; http://www.thetoptens.com; http://www.incapsula.com; http://www.telegeography.com
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