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Blogs, articles, and white papers on everything that matters in the data center industry.

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Data Center Construction Process: Building Efficiency Into Everything We Do

Compass is known for its fast-paced data center builds. We’re a hyper-speed developer in a hyperscale environment. Building efficiency into everythi...

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DFW data center: Aerial view of a cityscape with skyscrapers, highway intersections, and scattered buildings under a hazy sky, depicting a bustling urban environment.
Why a Dallas/Fort Worth Data Center?

The Dallas/Fort Worth region is one of the largest and most active data center markets in the United States. Compass serves this market via two data c...

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Building for What’s Next: Phoenix Data Centers

Learn about the thinking behind our Phoenix, AZ campus.

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Phoenix data center: Aerial view of a dense cityscape with tall buildings, sprawling urban development, distant mountains, and clear skies. No people are visible.
Why a Phoenix Data Center?

Phoenix metro area's emergence as major data center location is based on many factors attractive to hyperscale and cloud providers including Compass.

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The International Data Center Development Boom

Data center development has been focused to just a few key markets where supply and contractors were reliable and accessible. But that is changing.

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Data Center Northern Virginia: Aerial view of a classic brick building with a clock tower surrounded by lush green trees. Residential houses and streets in the background.
Why Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is without question the nation's data center Mecca. Compass Datacenters discusses what makes this area so valuable to data.

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Virtual commissioning: a stylized representation of data storage and servers with a laptop, circuitry, and a stack of hard disks in a blue, tech-themed setting.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Virtual Commissioning

Assessing the construction process of data centers with virtual commissioning using a skeleton crew on-site, a lot of video and sensor equipment, and ...

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Text on a dark background reads "How We Selected the Site of Our Leesburg Campus in Northern Virginia" with the Compass Datacenters logo below.
Building for What’s Next Means Planning Ahead

Learn about the thinking behind our Northern Virginia campus

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Keeping up With Demand: Three people in safety gear are standing over a table, examining architectural plans at a construction site, surrounded by tools and digital tablets.
Keeping up With Demand

Compass Datacenters dives into the data center building construction process and the impacts on keeping up with demand in the industry.

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Creating Data Infrastructure: A person interacts with a futuristic holographic display of charts and graphs projected from a laptop, implying advanced analytics or business intelligence.
The Way to Predictive Analytics: Creating Data Infrastructure

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Getting to predictive analytics requires data infrastructure and a systemic approach. Considering data centers as a complex system, not as individual ...

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IoT: The Present and the Future

The Internet of Things is one of the world's fastest-growing technology segments. Download this free whitepaper to learn more

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Nighttime cityscape overlaid with glowing digital icons and lines representing a network, prominently featuring "5G" connectivity symbols floating above the skyline.
5G – What, Where, When and Why

5G has been getting a lot of press exposure but what is it and where are we in terms of its implementation? A comprehensive guide to the frontier of ...

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