Quicksilver Winner Announced

Today I am pleased to announced that the team of AHA Consulting Engineers & Winterstreet Architects have been selected to design Phase II of the eBay Data Center in Utah - Project Quicksilver.This was by far the toughest choice to date in this public RFP process. The five finalist teams that presented to us all had strong credentials, competent project teams and very creative designs. We took our time internally scrutinizing all of the elements of our score sheet to make our decision. As we have said in the past, we selected the team that best fit our needs at this moment in time. I am very confident that my peers will receive great benefits from seeing all five design approaches at the DCP readout session in Q1 of 2012 (stay tuned for updates). In my personal opinion, the public RFP design process has been extremely successful in driving creativity and innovation from a gamut of talented companies and individuals in the industry. The big ideas and design stretching requirements have given birth to entirely new ways to approach data center design in alignment with IT workload efficiencies. The industry is being influenced by companies like this gaining access to the challenges customers like eBay are facing in delivering value for their business. It is not just a data center facility that needs a low PUE. It is an engine connecting a 100 million users to do more than 60 billion dollars of transactions a year. IT is our business and the engine that powers it must be agile and tuned for performance and efficiency at every layer of the stack.

Below is a video introducing the project leaders and more on the process and high level design approach.

Please watch for updates on the Project Quicksilver project page.

For more information email: modular@ebay.com