DataBank, which provides enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services, has opened a third data hall within its SLC5 data center. The facility is part of the company’s Granite Point North campus in Bluffdale, UT, near Salt Lake City.
SLC5 facility can accommodate five data halls, each providing 10,000 square feet of raised floor and 2 MW of UPS. Opening the third data hall thus brings SLC5’s current capacity to 30,000 square feet of raised flooring and 6 MW of critical IT load. Meanwhile, the remaining two halls are in the process of being brought online as well.
The facility, like the others within the Granite Point North campus, offers network connectivity to more than a dozen carriers and cloud providers, as well as access to DataBank’s onsite 66-MW N+1 power substation. SLC5 offers customer amenities and security features that meet HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SSAE-18 SOC1, and SOC2, as well as GDPR compliance requirements. DataBank has targeted the facility toward for content providers, cloud companies, hyperscale providers, and large enterprises.
The capacity expansion reflects the growing popularity of Salt Lake City as a home to high-tech and related industries, according to DataBank. “This kind of growth in the area is driving the need for colocation, connectivity, and cloud services, making Salt Lake City a prime location for enterprise-class data centers,” commented Danny Allen, DataBank vice president of engineering. “Unrelenting customer demand is what has led us to continue to add capacity to SLC5 as well as begin planning for SLC6 and SLC7.”
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