Granite Block to be largest N.E. data center

By Kimberley Donoghue
PBN Web Editor
Twitter: @kydonoghue

FALL RIVER – Once the renovation at the Granite Block Global Data Center is completed – slated for within two months – it will be the largest of its kind in New England, The Herald News reported.

The 163,000-square-foot data center will provide application hosting and disaster recovery services.

It will employ between 60 to 80 people, including: technicians, sales associates, security personnel and maintenance employees.

Last month, two 2-megawatts generators, costing about $500,000 each, were put in place to guarantee uninterrupted power supply at the facility.

Granite’s president noted that the data center should attract visitors to Fall Rivers; a similar, 40,000-square-foot data center in Boston brings 500 to 700 visitors monthly, he said to the newspaper.