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Some 16 months after plans were announced, the high-performance data center in Holyoke — driven by a coalition of tech companies, universities and public agencies — is taking two steps closer to reality.
Gov. Deval Patrick plans to be in Holyoke today for a ground-breaking on the site. Meanwhile, it was revealed that IT infrastructure providers EMC Corp. of Hopkinton and Cisco Systems Inc. of California and Boxborough are each paying $2.5 million of the estimated $80 million total cost for the data center. The Boston Globe quoted Patrick as saying that the data center will provide only a few dozen jobs but should serve as a magnet for other development in the Holyoke area.
Plans for the High Performance Data Center originally were made public in June 2009 with EMC, Cisco, the University of Massachusetts, MIT and Boston University announcing a planning project for the data center, intended to serve compute-intensive applications while also being a green facility drawing electricity from a hydroelectric system on the Connecticut River.
A year ago, Patrick targeted a 2011 completion date for the facility , and Accenture PLC joined the coalition.
Then, in March, the state pledged $25 million in funds, and Patrick said that the universities will contribute a total of $40 million to the project.
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