private company industry colocation cloud hosting managed hosting founded 2007 headquarters 340 progress circle cheyenne wy 82007 key people shawn mills thomas burns cortney thompson co founders website www.greenhousedata.com green house data is a data center services provider headquartered in cheyenne wyoming . cheyenne is home to a campus with 45 000 square feet of data center space administrative and technical support offices . the company has additional data center locations in washington oregon new jersey and new york with sales and marketing offices in laramie and in denver colorado . 1 contents 1 history 2 emerging markets 3 sustainable energy 4 compliance 5 data centers 6 in the news 7 references 8 external links history edit in 2007 three friends hatched the idea for a data center powered exclusively by renewable energy over coffee and soon after began the process of retrofitting a former office building to provision 3000 square feet of colocation space . 2 by march 2012 green house data had doubled the footprint in the cheyenne location added cloud hosting products and expanded its footprint to the west coast . 3 in december 2013 an east coast expansion was announced 4 and by august 2013 the company had broken ground on a new facility in cheyenne . 5 the second cheyenne location officially opened on july 30 2014 . 6 in september 2014 1547 critical systems realty and green house data announced that the company would be an anchor tenant in a redevelopment at 1 ramland road in orangeburg new york . 7 in april 2015 the company acquired fibercloud 8 a seattle wa based provider of colocation cloud hosting and other data center services . with this acquisition green house data added three data centers in washington state as well as nearly 20 employees and several hundred customers . emerging markets edit the company is part of a new surge in data center construction in the cheyenne region and across the rocky mountains . cheyenne has been ranked as a top 5 location for data centers 9 with microsoft echostar and the national center for atmospheric research all operating facilities in the city . in addition green house data s most recent facility in orangeburg represents entry into the rockland county market which is just beginning to emerge as a new data center cluster . it is home to facilities operated by both bloomberg l.p. and verizon . sustainable energy edit as a whole the data center industry has been highly criticized for heavy electrical use 10 11 and in recent years has actively tried to reduce power consumption by improving facility design 12 and increasing server virtualization . as a key element of their business model green house data purchases renewable energy credits or recs for wind power and documents purchases with the epa s green power partnership . in 2013 green house data was part of epa s leadership club for sustainable power purchases . 13 a common measure for data center power consumption is power usage effectiveness often abbreviated pue . beginning in 2014 green house data was the first company to participate in wyorecs the first renewable energy credit program based out of wyoming . 14 in april 2015 green house data joined the epa s top 30 tech & telecom list of the largest green power users retiring over 8 million kilowatt hours kwh of green power annually . 15 npr s all things considered called green house data s energy efficiency an obsession . 16 compliance edit in july 2011 the company s cloud and colocation facilities achieved ssae 16 type ii compliance . 17 additionally in 2012 green house data achieved hipaa it compliance . 18 data centers edit green house data operates a total of seven data center facilities . there are cloud and colocation data centers in cheyenne wy seattle wa everett wa and bellingham wa and cloud data centers in orangeburg ny piscataway nj and portland or . each location is carrier neutral fully compliant to hipaa and ssae 16 type ii standards and comes with guaranteed uptime service level agreements . in march of 2016 the company announced a hear from a human technical support service guarantee which fortune called more characteristic of a boutique cloud . 19 the seattle facility is located within the westin building the 3rd largest carrier hotel in the united states . the westin building data center consists of the 18th 19th and 32nd floors with participation in the seattle internet exchange . in the news edit green house data acquired fibercloud a west coast data center company in april of 2015 gaining three washington facilities in seattle everett and bellingham . 20 in february 2015 green house data was recognized in the top 500 msp by crn magazine for the second consecutive year 21 in october 2014 green house data was recognized as a top 100 cloud services provider by talkin cloud 22 making the list for the second consecutive time . 23 in february 2014 green house data was recognized as a top 500 managed service provider 24 by crn magazine . in 2014 green house data became the first b corp in wyoming . 25 green house data cto cortney thompson was interviewed as part of a marketplace radio piece by wyoming public media covering government it departments moving to cloud services and data centers . 26 in august 2013 the state of wyoming was announced as the first anchor tenant in green house data s second cheyenne facility . 27 references edit contact us . green house data . retrieved 10 november 2013 . alger douglas 2012 . the art of the data center a look inside the world s most innovative and compelling computing environments . us prentice hall . p. 368 . isbn 978 158714296 3 . lee justin . green house data expands cloud hosting to west coast with oregon data center . article . the whir . retrieved 12 november 2013 . miller rich . green house data expands to new jersey . data center knowledge . retrieved 12 november 2013 . woods annie . local data center to break ground on expansion . cheyenne leads . 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february 2015 . talkin cloud 100 2014 edition ranked 51 to 75 . retrieved oct 10 2014 . panettieri joe . top 100 cloud services providers csp list and research . talkin cloud . retrieved 15 may 2013 . green house data named to crn s managed service provider 500 list . green house data . retrieved 27 february 2014 . b corp community . b corp. retrieved 5 march 2014 . bryan miles . state governments experiment with cloud computing . marketplace . retrieved 9 september 2014 . state of wyoming announced as new colocation client during grand opening . green house data . retrieved 12 august 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title green house data & oldid 744217415 categories cloud computing providerssustainabilityweb hostingcompanies based in cheyenne wyomingcomputer companies established in 2007hidden categories cs1 errors external linkspages with url errorspages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls 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