Data Center to be dedicated Thursday

The $32.7 million IU Data Center facility will be dedicated Thursday. It is designed to serve as a safe house for IU’s computer processing and data storage equipment.

At 3:30 Thursday, IU President Michael McRobbie will formally dedicate the center in a ceremony at 2737 E. 10th St. Directly preceding the event will be a reception and tours of the new facility.

“It will help students, especially graduate students because it will house current and future super computers, which will help with research,” said IU Spokesman Larry MacIntyre.

The new facility will support increased research, administration and teaching on all of IU’s campuses. The center houses critical networking, storage and computing equipment that will serve all IU campuses though I-Light, a high-speed fiber optic network.