It’s been a little over four months since we officially opened the doors of our Salt Lake City-area facility in West Jordan. In those four short months, we’ve received great feedback regarding the meaningful, positive impact of our efficient, highly reliable and adaptive data center platform.
Completed in just six months, the first phase of data center construction showcased not only the support of our customers and the greater Salt Lake City community, but also the hard work and dedication of our platform and operations teams as well as construction and technology partners. It also substantiated the effectiveness and critical nature of Aligned’s advanced supply chain methodology and inventory management system.
Since then, we’ve embarked on the second phase of expansion to serve the fourth generation of Utah tech. Our construction teams are hard at work in response to the growing needs of cloud providers, enterprise companies and our existing customers in the region, all whom require an adaptive, reliable and sustainable colocation solution.
“Aligned’s latest expansion in West Jordan is a critical milestone in the company’s next growth phase, and we couldn’t have gotten here without the support of our customers, partners, team and surrounding community,” says Andrew Schaap, CEO of Aligned.
Aligned Salt Lake City features our patented, award-winning heat rejection technology, Delta Cube; the platform is also underpinned by Aligned’s VSAS™ methodology – velocity, scalability, adaptability, and sustainability. Located on 55 acres, including a dedicated on-site substation, the 600,000-square-foot facility can deliver up to 130 MW of critical capacity and industry-leading Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).
The state of Utah and the Salt Lake City area met even the most stringent criteria of Aligned’s rigorous data center site selection process. Boasting an extensive fiber infrastructure, the state ranks first in the West and eighth worldwide for fastest internet connectivity speeds. Utah also ranks fifth in the nation for national disaster safety, and its cold desert classification allows for ambient air cooling. Combine that with some of the cheapest electricity and natural gas rates in the nation, and it’s no surprise 451 Research ranks Silicon Slopes as a top 10 U.S. multi-tenant data center market. The skiing isn’t bad either.
In addition to these data center drivers, the state also boasts a rich history of playing a critical role in championing innovations that underpinned numerous Industrial Revolutions. Just North of Salt Lake City in 1860, for example, the last golden spike was hammered into the ground, marking the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad — one of the First Industrial Revolution’s major innovations. A year later near the city center, the final link between the East and West Coast’s telegraph networks was established, and with it, so was the Second Industrial Revolution. Jumping ahead to just 45 years ago, on Aligned Salt Lake City’s very data center site, National Semiconductor built a manufacturing facility to fabricate its first wafer silicon chip. This invention ignited the Third Industrial Revolution.
As we now stand on the brink of the next great disruptive innovations, the Salt Lake City area and Aligned’s data center are poised to play another significant role in their perpetuation. From the adaptable platform to the next-generation technologies we have deployed there, we believe Aligned Salt Lake City as well as our entire network of data centers are the new engines of innovation for not only the next Utah tech wave, but also for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
To learn more about Aligned’s Salt Lake City-area facility in West Jordan, visit www.aligneddc.com/data-centers/salt-lake-city.
