Cirrus opening 224,000-sq.-ft. data center

Cirrus Data Services, a subsidiary of Salt Lake City-based real estate development and investment firm Gardner Co., has begun development of the first phase of its View 78 Data Center campus in Midvale. The data colocation facility will include a 32-megawatt wholesale and hyperscale center with subsequent plans to include up to 160 megawatts of data capacity on the site.

{mprestriction ids="1,3"}“We are excited to announce the launch of Cirrus Data Services and that we are entering the data center colocation market,” said Gardner Co. CEO Christian Gardner. “The Salt Lake City data center market is growing. Major firms and organizations are coming to Utah because of the many advantages this state has to offer.”

“Our new data center campus located in the View 78 development in Midvale is designed for both hyperscale and wholesale tenants, including cloud service providers, enterprise companies and other large-scale tenants,” said James Jeffries, president of Cirrus Data Services. “Our product is intended to be scalable and provide an adaptable solution to meet the needs of sophisticated tenants in this sector.”

The first phase of the center will include over 224,000 square feet of data center space and approximately 18,000 square feet of office space including technical burn-in and storage areas. The facility’s flexible power distribution and cooling design enable both low-density and high-density racks. The facility will be the first data center campus for Cirrus Data Services. Expansion plans for the site includes up to 120,000 square feet of data center infrastructure.

Cirrus has assembled a team for the development, building and operations of the View 78 Data Center. In conjunction with Gardner Co.’s development arm, the team includes Arch/Nexus, Spectrum Engineers and Revealey Engineering. FirstDigital is providing initial fiber, network connectivity and telecommunications services. 

Doug Thimm, lead architect with Arch/Nexus, said, “This is an exciting project. The design team is mobilized and ready to execute our design effort. This data center is designed to meet the demands of today’s evolving requirements.” Awarding of the construction contract for the data center is scheduled to occur this month, Thimm said.

Utah is becoming an established colocation data center market. Aligned Energy recently announced the retrofit of a former semiconductor chip fabrication facility in West Jordan for colocation servicing the wholesale market. Other existing multi-tenant data center offerings in the Salt Lake City market include DataBank, which operates three facilities in the region; and Flexential, which has seven data centers in the Salt Lake City area. In addition, other major firms have facilities in this region, including the recent announcement from Facebook that it is building a campus in Eagle Mountain.

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