Wrangell borough explores attracting data center to town

WRANGELL – The borough wants a data center to plug into Wrangell. Better yet, it could even move into the unused formal hospital property.

Data centers are large hosting sites for multiple servers that provide computing power and storage for cloud-based service providers.

While at Southeast Conference, held in Ketchikan last month, borough representatives spoke with Sam Enoka, founder and CEO of Greensparc — a San Francisco-based technology company that specializes in setting up modular, small-scale data centers for cloud computing.

Enoka grew up around Fairbanks before leaving Alaska for grad...