The Brownrice Datacenter

Datacenter Features

Solar Powered
50kW Solar Array

We understand the importance of stepping up for the environment. And quite frankly it's a business no-brainer to invest in energy efficiency. At peak production our solar parking structure produces more power than all of our servers, cooling, lighting, offices and office computers use. Over the course of a year approximately 33% of our total power is produced by the sun (and about 50% of our data center electical usage). You can see our solar production in real-time right here:

Air Cooled
Hot Aisle Containment and Outside Air Cooling.

Our outside-air cooling systems allow us to cool our data center without the use of air conditioners for nine months out of the year - which drastically reduces our electical usage. For those hotter months our hot-aisle systems contain and blow server-heated air outside so that our air conditioners have less work to do to keep things cool. See Brownrice cooling (on the left in image below) where we contain and expel server-heated air vs traditional data centers that continually re-cool server-heated air (not efficient.)

System Redundancy
Redundant generators, HVACs, and power supplies

We've built redundancy into all levels of our data center, so all our equipment and networks have hot-swap and live-failover capabilities, or standby replacements are on site and immediately available to deploy.

On-Site Security
PCI and HIPAA Compliance

Our data center's physical security features locking racks, biometric entry security systems, video surveillance with on-site and off-site video storage, traditional security systems, and IP based security and intrusion detection systems.

Fire Suppression
So Green you Could Breathe it

Our data center's automated clean agent fire suppression system (FM-200) has zero ozone depletion potential, will put out a fire without having to turn off servers, will leave no trace, and requires no cleanup.

Hands-on Support
Smart and friendly humans

Our on-site support staff builds servers, writes code, optimizes databases, and configures networks. We know what it's like to be far away from your servers, so we're happy to lend as many hands as needed, at any time.

Physically Redundant Network
BGP routing, redundant fiber, microwave backups.

The Brownrice network is triple-redundant, with dual 10Gb/s peering links. Our primary fiber connections peer in physically redundant locations, south in New Mexico and north into Colorado, providing extemely fast coast-to-coast speeds. Our backup connections are via a large-capacity microwave link which uses the exact same technology that high speed financial traders use to beat the markets, which makes our network virtually unbreakable. See it in action in this video (no sound):