Don't expect the Newark facility to achieve a "silver" or "gold" LEED rating; datacenters are huge power suckers. The aggregate consumption by servers and data centers in the US has more than doubled since 2000 to about 45 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2005, accounting for about 1.2% of the country's electricity consumption, roughly equal to the power drawn by the nation's color televisions.

"We're going for the initial base certification and, depending on that experience, we might move up the stack to silver or gold either in future builds or in Newark," Miles Kelly, VP of corporate strategy for 365 Main, tells GlobeSt.com.

Build out of the Newark facility is under way. The 136,410-sf facility is scheduled to open shortly before the end of the year.