Connect America Summit III

Connect America Summit III

AGENDA

  

Thursday, June 12, 2014 – Pioneer Center in Duffield, Virginia
10:00AM - NOON

10:00AM – 10:20AM   Introduction and Overview – Connect America Summits

10:20AM – 11:30AM  The 2014 USDA Community Connect grant deadline is July 7th.  Get tips and gain insight from a grant writer (Appalachian Resources, LLC Manager Joan Minor) who has led the preparation of 8 successful USDA Community Connect grant applications, securing grant awards totaling $6,219,664.

11:30AM - 11:50AM  Very brief updates on:
~ FCC Connect America Phase II
~ USDA 2014 Farm Bill - Rural Gigabit Network Pilot Projects

~ Appalachian Regional Commission 2014 distressed counties funding for broadband

11:50AM – NOON  Plans for Connect America Summit IV  

Registration fee is $89 per person.  Registration is required.  To register, email joan@appalachianresources.com or call (276) 445-4600.  The Pioneer Center is located at 225 Boone Trail Road in Duffield, Virginia.  

Duffield, Virginia?!!  Where is Duffield, Virginia?!  Duffield (population 91) may be "just past the middle of nowhere," but it is home to the nation's first commercial Tier III data center.

"How did we decide to build America’s first commercial Tier III datacenter amidst the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia?,” Tom Deaderick, OnePartner Director explains at http://www.onepartner.com/Portals/4/Docs/10places.pdf.  

No updates on the website since 2011, but here's an online tour: http://www.onepartner.com/VideoTour.aspx

Or might you prefer an undergound data center?  Apparently, Duffield may have one of those up and running soon too, according to an article available at http://www.timesnews.net/article/9053861/scott-supervisors-approve-permit-for-data-center-in-duffield.  The article reported, "GATE CITY — The Scott County Board of Supervisors approved a special use permit Wednesday for an underground data center that is being proposed for a former mining site located in the Duffield area."