DataBank expands capacity of Salt Lake City’s SLC5 Data Center
DataBank says it has opened data halls four and five in its SLC5 data center at Granite Point North campus complex in Bluffdale, UT, near Salt Lake City. The capacity expansion rapidly followed the opening of SLC5’s data hall three this past May (see "DataBank opens third hall in SLC5 Salt Lake City data center").
Each of the newly opened halls offer 10,000 square feet of raised floor and 2 MW of UPS. SLC5 now offers a total of 50,000 square feet of raised flooring and 10 MW of critical IT load. SLC5 offers network connectivity to more than a dozen carriers and cloud providers as well as access to DataBank’s private onsite, 66 MW N+1 power substation within the Granite Point North campus.
“The completion of the five data halls is reflective of the regional embrace of technology and of unrelenting customer demand for colocation, connectivity and cloud services,” comments Raul K. Martynek, DataBank’s CEO. “All of this solidifies Salt Lake City’s status as a prime location for enterprise-class data centers. With all five data halls at SLC5 open and expected to fill quickly, we’ve already broken ground on SLC6, our next facility on the Granite Point campus.”
Databank significantly expanded its data center footprint both domestically and internationally earlier this year by acquiring zColo assets from Zayo Holdings (see "DataBank closes zColo deal with acquisition of five French data centers").
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