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State Promises Funds for Data Center Initiative

HOLYOKE, MA-Gov. Deval Patrick is designating the Holyoke Innovation District and will guarantee $25 million along with a university consortium's $45 million.

By Ryan Clark | Updated on March 30, 2010

HOLYOKE, MA-Gov. Deval Patrick is officially designating the Holyoke Innovation District as the 20th Growth District in Massachusetts. With this designation, the governor is guaranteeing a $25-million commitment to the construction of a proposed data center here.

The Holyoke’s High Performance Computing Center is already backed by the University Consortium, a collection of Bay State universities, which have agreed to commit $45 million to the project. The consortium is comprised of Boston University, MIT, the University of Massachusetts and recently joined by Northeastern University.

The initiative is joined by development partners EMC and Cisco, along with, of course, the City of Holyoke. UMass president Jack M. Wilson says in a statement, “We believe this strategic investment will provide real benefits to our research universities in their role as economic engines for the state, the City of Holyoke and the Commonwealth [of Massachusetts] as a whole.”

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