Thinking globally, acting locally
Aligned partners with the communities where our campuses are located for the long run. Listening and soliciting input. Protecting what people value. Upgrading infrastructure. Creating opportunities so that our neighbor citizens and businesses can prosper.
Our localized approach to community relations is based on four core impact pillars that provide a foundational framework for our company’s activities globally.
From hands-on internships to skilled trades instruction to graduate engineering programs. We’re helping to build tomorrow’s data center workforce by creating pathways into rewarding technical and professional careers.
Growing next-gen data center pros… Aligned provides students, recent grads, and career changers the opportunity to gain hands-on work experience in data center operations. We collaborate with industry organizations like Nomad Futurist, AFCOM and 7×24 as well as trade schools, colleges, and universities to find the next generation of talent. Aligned also proudly partners with military agencies and recruiters to attract veteran candidates to our facilities.
Roll up your sleeves… Aligned made a $100,000 donation to the the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, established by Mike Rowe, creator and host of the popular television series Dirty Jobs. Aligned’s contribution to the organization’s scholarship programs and initiatives helps individuals acquire the training and certifications needed for electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and welding – professions that are critical to the construction, maintenance, and operation of modern data center facilities.
Fast cars, bright futures… STEM Racing offers students the opportunity to design, build, race, and market miniature F1 cars. Aligned’s support helps expand access to this global program, giving young innovators fun and exciting real-world experiences and a powerful vehicle into data center, engineering, and tech careers.
Solving the talent gap… In Dallas, we partnered with Southern Methodist University to help shape the world’s first Master of Science in Datacenter Systems Engineering. For an industry that faces a critical talent shortage, this interdisciplinary program blends electrical engineering, IT, facilities management, business continuity, and cybersecurity, preparing graduates to manage infrastructure systems from end to end.
We’re proud to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation, helping provide comfort and encouragement to women undergoing treatment. By packing HOPE Kits filled with care items and handwritten messages, our team is working to deliver strength, compassion, and the reminder that no one fights alone.
Aligned is a proud supporter of Folds of Honor North Texas. Folds of Honor brings together our military and first responder families, veterans, scholarship recipients, and members of the North Texas community.
Get ready to roll… We helped launch the West Jordan Wheels Park, Utah’s first all-wheels recreation center, open to a wide range of rolling activities, including skateboards, bikes, scooters, and skates.
We partner on locally meaningful, measurable environmental projects that support a greener, cleaner, and healthier planet.
Bearing fruit across America… Aligned partnered with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation to plant two orchards in Phoenix. The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation has helped communities plant a collective total of 18 billion fruit trees, or roughly three fruit trees for every person on the planet. Looking forward, we plan to plant two orchards a year in every Aligned data center market in U.S. Not only does this program benefit the climate, but the harvest will also provide healthy sustenance to local food banks.
We back programs that boost community health, rallying our employees, partners, family, and friends around life-saving and life-enriching causes.
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