I’ve reached out to Twitter for comment, but if this is true it wouldn’t come as a surprise to those closely watching Twitter’s infrastructure moves. In December Data Center Knowledge reported that Twitter was moving its servers to Sacramento and that Sacramento would be the service’s first data center expansion instead of Utah. At the time Twitter didn’t comment on its Utah plans, but in March it announced that it had moved into its new data center without ever naming the location of that data center.
Then in April, Reuters picked up on rumors that Twitter was moving servers from the Utah location to Sacramento, and indicated that the data center in Bluffdale, Utah might no longer be Twitter’s home. The Salt Lake Tribune picked up on the rumors and two days later confirmed that the “unnamed anchor tenant” thought to be Twitter, was still in the Bluffdale facility.
The Reuters story cited insufficient power as a reason for Twitter’s move, and information offered by the Bluffdale, Utah facility’s owner C7 does show a marked reduction in power capacity from 10 megawatts available in Oct. 2010 when the facility launched to 8 megawatts of power available in March of this year, according to a second release. In April, Reuters quoted Wes Swenson, president of C7 president of C7, as saying the facility had access to 5 megawatts.
The sources at Structure said the inability to get sufficient electricity to the site contributed to Twitter’s decision to move, and implied that the efforts to build in Bluffdale had been a disaster. Calls to Swenson were not returned.
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