Aphorio Carter: Harrisonburg, VA

This single-story data center at 1175 North Main Street sits on 12.96 acres in Harrisonburg, Virginia. An affiliate of Carter Funds, the parent of Aphorio Carter, has owned the property since 2022. Anthem Health has leased the full building since 2015.

History:

• DBT-Data bought the former Tyco building in 2008 and converted it into a data center. Carpathia Hosting anchored it as the Blue Ridge Data Center.
• Harris Corporation bought the facility in 2010 and ran it as a cyber integration center.
• DBT-Data bought the building back in 2013. GI Partners acquired it in 2014.
• An affiliate of Carter Funds bought the property in 2022.
• Directories also list the site as QTS Harrisonburg, after QTS acquired Carpathia in 2015.

Building:

• Dual 20 MW electrical transformers on the property, served by two separate substations
• Outside the 50-mile nuclear risk zone of Washington, D.C.
• 100-foot setbacks

Power:

• 12 sets of 2.5 MW Caterpillar generators in an N+1 configuration
• Dual-fed power distribution units in an N+1 configuration, with 750 kVA UPS systems
• Redundant chilled water plant that supports over 120 watts per square foot, in 2N up to N+3 configurations
• Design supports individual direct expansion (DX) units for each tenant, up to N+3