Firm opening 300,000-sq.-ft. data center in West Jordan

Aligned Energy, a Dallas-based data storage facility provider, has announced that it is building a 300,000-square-foot center in West Jordan. When completed this summer, building will serve as a colocation data center supporting both cloud providers and enterprise customers. 

{mprestriction ids="1,3"}“Our new data center in West Jordan addresses the needs of cloud providers, enterprise companies and our existing customers that require an adaptive, future-proof data center solution in and around the Greater Salt Lake area,” said Aligned Energy CEO Andrew Schaap. “We are delighted to be a part of the Salt Lake business community, expand our portfolio to a new market and serve the region with an incredibly efficient and highly reliable data center platform. We continue to see strong demand for our services in Phoenix, Dallas and now Salt Lake.”

Situated on 60 acres, including a dedicated onsite electrical substation, the facility is being renovated to deliver 50 megawatts of critical capacity. The site will initially provide a 75,000- square-foot data hall, 15,000 square feet of rentable office space and 9,700 square feet of technical burn-in and storage space. The building also will have a dedicated loading dock, conference rooms, drop-in office pods, a café area and shower facilities.  The installation will deliver an industry-leading 1.15 PUE (power-usage-effectiveness), the company said. Electricity for the data center will be provided by Rocky Mountain Power. {/mprestriction}