DATA CENTERS SNAPSHOT The Kansas City Region KC Connects with German-based Internet Superior Energy, Capability and Reliability Company One of the most important advantages KC offers is its inherent protection against World’s largest web energy black-outs. Your risks of experiencing an energy black-out are influenced hosting company invests greatly by the distance you are from your primary energy source and your back-up $42 million in Lenexa. energy source. KC provides: “1&1 has found an • Consistently ranked among the best for constant, uninterrupted service excellent business climate • Exceptional low-cost energy prices in Kansas, and we have • Local generation via coal, nuclear, wind generation plants been enthusiastically welcomed to the Kansas ♦ Central U.S. Location City Area, said Andreas Kansas City has a central Gauger, chairman, 1&1 U.S. location, which reduces Internet. the likelihood that KC-based 1&1 Internet is the operations will become a recognized leader of Web target for disruption. And in hosting products in the case that a disaster Europe and began serving recovery site is sought, we U.S. customers in late are within a day's driving 2003. The company distance of a number of selected a 55,000-sq.-ft. metropolitan areas. facility at College Crossing Business Park and will ♦ World-Class Telecommunications Infrastructure house 40,000 servers to Home to Sprint’s headquarters and major AT&T, Time Warner Cable, tw telecom accommodate the and Verizon regional facilities, KC is also the first city in the world to receive Google company’s fast growing Fiber. Greater Kansas City enjoys the benefit of one of the world’s most advanced telecommunications networks. It is a focal point both for long-haul fiber and transcontinental fiber networks. For More • AT&T • Qwest Information • Avid • Sprint Contact: • Blue Bird Networks • Sunflower Broadband • CenturyLink • SureWest Communications Jill McCarthy • Cogent Communications • Time Warner Cable Business Vice President • Comcast • tw telecom Business Development • Cox Communications • Unite Private Networks Kansas City Area • Google • Verizon Communications Development Council • Level 3 Communications • XO Communications 816.374.5636 • LightEdge Solutions • Zayo Group [email protected] • liNKCity ♦ KC Offers One of the Deepest I.T. Talent Pools in the Central U.S. Kansas City Tim Cowden Senior Vice President • Available labor in I.T. professions (over 34,000) is strong • Sprint headquarters, significant operations for AT&T, tw telecom, and Time Business Development Warner Cable 816.374.5650 • Financial: American Century, Federal Reserve Bank of KC, H&R Block, Key [email protected] Bank, State Street, and U.S. Bank www.thinkKC.com • Data Processing, Software & Engineering: CitiGroup, Honeywell, Garmin, Bayer, Cerner, DST Systems, Black & Veatch, Burns and McDonnell, CRB Consulting Engineers, Inc., Ellerbe Becket, GBA, and Olsson Associates DATA CENTERS SNAPSHOT ♦ Incentives Select Major DC • Utility – five-year decreasing discount equivalent to one year of free electricity Successes • Real Property Tax Abatement – discretionary program offered by many cities 1102 Grand • Training – flexible, tailored programs for the client company 1&1 Internet • Tax Credits – based on job creation & capital investment ADT Security Service, Inc. • Personal Property Tax Exemption – full exemption provided in Kansas; Missouri American Century communities have discretionary programs developed to reduce or eliminate Arsalon Technologies, LLC property tax on machinery and equipment. Bank of America Black & Veatch ♦ Availability of targeted sites and facilities with existing power and telecom Cavern Technologies infrastructure Cerner Corporation (2) ♦ Low Natural Disaster Occurrence Probability Children’s Mercy Hospital CitiGroup Commerce Bancshares, Inc. CoSentry KC DST Systems, Inc. Earthquake – First Nat’l. Technology Sol. FishNet Securities prepared by the U.S. H&R Block Geological Survey, Hallmark Cards the map shows the Honeywell FM&T KC area to be in IRS Processing Center relatively little threat Layered Tech of significant seismic Liberty Mutual activity. MasterCard International St. Luke’s Health System Sprint State Street SubTech Data Center UMB Financial Corporation U.S. Bank Tornado – prepared U.S. Marine Corps by the National Severe Storm Lab, this map illustrates “We have quality the total annual universities in the four state threat of tornadoes region that provide the in the U.S. The architectural and mean number of engineering talent to enable days per year with one or more events us, and the other firms in within 25 miles of KC the KC area, to satisfy the is 1.0 days. requirements of the very demanding data center industry.” ♦ Data Center Management Support Kim Pearse, P.E. • KCnext– The Technology Council of Greater Kansas City GBA • KC area CIOs run a peer group that meets monthly • AFCOM data center industry chapter • 7 x 24 Exchange Revised: 5/8/2012 .