New facility will bring a much-needed 20MW
of power and 70,000 raised square feet of "HPC-ready" data center
space to the already constrained Northern
Virginia market.
DALLAS, July 25,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DataBank, a leading provider of
enterprise-class edge colocation, interconnection, and managed
services, today announced that it has now begun construction of its
third data center on Red Rum Drive in Ashburn VA. It is immediately adjacent to its
existing 13-acre campus in Ashburn,
VA, bringing critical new space and power inventory to one
of the busiest data center markets in the world.
The new facility (IAD4) and surrounding 5-acres of land are
being developed in collaboration with GI Partners, and will join
the two existing facilities (IAD1, IAD3) already in operation on
the existing 13-acre campus. IAD4 will provide an additional 20MW
of power (in a constrained market) and 70,000 raised square feet of
space, increasing the total capacity of the campus to 18 acres,
70MW of power and 375,000 square feet of data center space.
"This new site demonstrates DataBank's ability to creatively
source additional space and power in extremely constrained
markets," comments Raul K.
Martynek, DataBank's CEO. "By expanding this Ashburn campus, DataBank is responding to the
northern VA market's surging need for colocation space and power
that can support the A.I. applications of the future."
The new IAD4 data center, which is expected to be available in
Q1 2026, will leverage DataBank's recently announced Universal Data
Hall Design (UDHD) which will ensure capacity can be quickly
deployed and will meet the sustainability and High-Performance
Computing (HPC) power and cooling requirements of the most
demanding hyperscale cloud and AI applications.
The announcement to expand its Ashburn, VA campus comes just 8 months after
DataBank announced the acquisition of 85 acres in Culpeper VA, creating a second campus in the
Northern VA market which will eventually accommodate three
two-story facilities totaling 1.4M
square feet of gross data center space and 192MW of power.
About DataBank
Recognized by Deloitte as one of the
fastest-growing private U.S. companies in 2023, DataBank helps the
world's largest enterprises, technology, and content providers
ensure their data and applications are always on, always secure,
always compliant, and ready to scale to meet the needs of the
artificial intelligence era.
Our edge colocation and infrastructure footprint consists of 65+
"HPC-ready" data centers in 27+ markets, 20 interconnection hubs,
and on-ramps to an ecosystem of cloud providers with virtually
unlimited reach.
We combine these platforms with contract portability, managed
security, compliance enablement, hands-on support, and a
guarantee of 100% uptime availability, to give our customers
absolute confidence in their IT infrastructure and the power to
create a boundless digital future for their business.
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channel. To tour a facility, visit DataBank or call
1(800) 840-7533.
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