Condominium development in the area around John Wayne Airport has led Verizon Wireless to put off a $19.5 million investment in a regional wireless service facility there.
Verizon, owned by New York-based Verizon Communications Inc. and minority partner Vodafone Group PLC, is concerned about having homes close to its low-profile data center, which serves most of the Western U.S.
Company officials won’t even give out the site’s address for fear of sabotage.
The facility is near Jamboree Road and Main Street.
Plans call for replacing computers, tripling backup generators and adding cooling fans, a Verizon spokesman said.
The backup generators would produce enough electricity to power 6,000 homes.
“We’ve been withholding our $19.5 million investment,” spokesman Ken Muche said. “We haven’t decided whether we will or not.”
For more on this story, see the Sept. 11 edition of the Business Journal.
