Aligned Energy reveals 60 MW data center in Northern Virginia

Aligned Energy, an infrastructure technology company providing data center solutions, completed phase one of its hyperscale 368,755 square-foot, 60 MW data center campus in Ashburn, Va.

September 16, 2019

Published by SED

Energy Efficiencies, Energy Storage

Aligned Energy, an infrastructure technology company providing data center solutions, completed phase one of its hyperscale 368,755 square-foot, 60 MW data center campus in Ashburn, Va.

Once completed in full, the planned facility is expected to offer over 1M square feet of space and 180 MW of total critical load. The facility is located in the center of the nation’s most robust data center market in Loudon County, Va.

“Leveraging our standardized supply chain methodology, a dedicated, 50 MW, auto-replenished inventory pool, and best-of-breed partners, Aligned constructed two data halls and built out the first 12 MW of data center space, expandable to 60 MW, in less than six months,” Andrew Schaap, CEO of Aligned Energy, said in a statement. “Aligned Ashburn is among the fastest building permit to commissioning construction projects in the history of Ashburn’s critical infrastructure, delivering critical capacity in record time to meet the growing need for high-density, highly efficient and scalable colocation solutions in Ashburn.”

The data center producer claims Ashburn is a top choice for data center facilities because of its proximity to major population centers, affordable and reliable power, and favorable tax incentives. The region is also home to nine data centers from Equinix, and in total (as of July 2017) housed 4.6M square feet of data center space and 616 MW of power according to BisNow. Major fiber and conduit routes that run through Ashburn provide access to more than 50 carriers in the immediate area.

Aligned Energy offers colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers. A major draw of the facility is the company’s award-winning, patented cooling technology, called Delta Cube. The technology allows customers to deploy infrastructure where and when they need it as their requirements change and scale workload densities in place without having to reconfigure existing infrastructure, disperse equipment, or require large-scale investments to augment floors for increasing heat loads.

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