Atlanta, Georgia, is the Southeast’s leading economic hub. It may be the ninth largest metro-area in the U.S., but it ranks in the top five markets for bandwidth access, in the top three for headquarters of Fortune 500 companies and is home to the world’s busiest airport[i]. It should be no surprise that Atlanta is also a popular and growing destination for data centers.
There’s plenty about Atlanta that is attractive to businesses looking for data center space. Atlanta is favorable for its low power costs, low risk for natural disasters and pro-business climate. The major industries in Atlanta include technology, mobility and IoT, bioscience, supply chain and manufacturing.
Low power and high connectivity are strong factors driving Atlanta data center growth in this area. On average, the cost of power is under five cents per kilowatt-hour, a cost even more favorable than the 5.2 cents per kWh in Northern Virginia—the U.S.’s No. 1 data center market. Atlanta is on an Integrated Transmission System (ITS) for power, meaning all providers have access to the same grid, ensuring that transmission is efficient and reliable, according to Georgia Transmission Corp.
Noted in the Newmark Knight Frank, 2Q18—Atlanta Data Center Market Trends report, the City of Atlanta is invested in becoming a sustainable smart city. Plans include a Smart City Command Center at Georgia Tech’s High Performance Computing Center and a partnership with Google Fiber.
Economic incentives also aid the Atlanta data center market growth. According to Bisnow, legislators in Georgia passed House Bill 696, giving “data center operators a sales and use tax break on the expensive equipment installed in their facilities.” This incentive extends to 2028 and providers have taken notice. 451 Research noted that if all the providers who have declared plans to build follow through, Atlanta will overtake Dallas for the No. 3 spot for data center growth.
Considering Atlanta for a colocation, network or cloud solution? There are several reasons why we’re confident you’ll call INAP your future partner in this growing market.
The INAP Atlanta Data Center Difference
With a choice of providers in this thriving metro, why choose INAP?
Our downtown flagship Atlanta data center offers a reliable, high-performing backbone connection to Washington, D.C. and Dallas through our private fiber. INAP customers in this Atlanta data center avoid single points of failure with high-capacity metro network rings. Metro Connect provides multiple points of egress for traffic and is Performance IP® enabled. The metro rings are built on dark fiber and use state-of-the-art networking gear from Ciena.
The flagship Atlanta data center offers cages, cabinets and private suites, all housed under facilities designed with Tier 3 compliant attributes. For customers looking to manage large-scale deployments, Atlanta is a great fit—our private colocation suites give the flexibility they need. And for customers looking to reduce their footprint, our high-density Atlanta data centers allow them to fit more gear into a smaller space.
To find a best-fit configuration within the Atlanta data center market, customers can work with INAP’s expert support technicians to adopt the optimal architecture specific to the needs of their applications. Engineers are onsite in the Atlanta data center and are dedicated to keeping your infrastructure online, secure and always operating at peak efficiency.
INAP’s extensive product portfolio supports businesses and allows customers to customize their infrastructure environments.
At a glance, our Atlanta data center features:
- Power: 10 MW of power capacity, 20+ kW per rack
- Space: Over 120,000 square feet of Atlanta data center leased space with 45,000 square feet of raised floor
- Facilities: Tier 3 compliant attributes, located outside of flood plain and seismic zones
- Security: 24/7/365 onsite staff, video surveillance, key card and biometric authentication
- Network: INAP Performance IP® mix, carrier-neutral connectivity, geographic redundancy
- Compliance: PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II
Download the Atlanta Data Center spec sheet here [PDF].
INAP’s Content Delivery Network Performs with 18 Edge Locations
Atlanta is one of INAPs’ 18 high-capacity CDN edge locations. Our Content Delivery Network substantially improves end users’ online experience for our customers, regardless of their distance from the content’s origin server. We also have 90+ global POPs to support this network.
Content is delivered along the lowest-latency path—from the origin sever, to the edge, to the user—using INAP’s proven and patented route-optimization technology. We also use GeoDNS technology, which identifies user longitude-latitude and directs requests to the nearest INAP CDN cache, for seamless delivery.
INAP’s CDN also gives customers control of all aspects of content caching at their CDN edges—automated purges, cache warming, cache bypass, connection limits, request disabling, URL token stripping and much more.
Learn more about the INAP’s CDN here.
Our Atlanta data centers are conveniently located in the Atlanta metro area:
- Flagship Downtown Atlanta Data Center
250 Williams Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30303 - Atlanta POP
1033 Jefferson Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30318 - Atlanta POP
56 Marietta Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30303
More About Our Flagship Atlanta Data Center
Our flagship Atlanta data center is located at 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30303. This Atlanta colocation data center connects to Dallas and Washington, D.C. data centers via our reliable, high-performing backbone. Our carrier-neutral, SOC 2 Type II Atlanta data center market facilities are concurrently maintainable, energy efficient and support high-power density environments of 20+ kW per rack. If you need colocation Atlanta services, or other data center solutions in the Atlanta metro area, contact us.
[i] Newmark Knight Frank, 2Q18 – Atlanta Data Center Market Trends
