Aruba: IT3 DC-A

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Aruba: IT3 DC-A

Short Code: DC-A
Year Built: 2017
Utility Provider: E-Distribuzione
Lot Size: 49 acres
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DC-A is the first data center building on Aruba's IT3 campus in Ponte San Pietro. Aruba converted the northernmost Legler mill shed, with a seismic retrofit.

DC-A Features

  • Total surface area: 17,600 m²
  • Data hall surface area: 8,050 m², 10 independent data rooms
  • Connection points to utilities: 2
  • UPS: 2N+1, double-conversion static, 500 kVA modules
  • Generators: 2N diesel, 25 units of about 1.36 MW each
  • Full load run time: 26 h in emergency conditions, 52 h in standard conditions
  • Cooling: open-loop groundwater, 2N heat exchangers, air/water chillers in emergency mode
  • Solar: rooftop and facade PV of about 2.4 MWp
  • ANSI/TIA-942-B Rating 4, ISO 22237

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Sites within 15 miles of Aruba: IT3 DC-A

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0.06 miles Aruba: IT3 DC-C
0.14 miles Aruba: IT3 DC-E
DC-E was a fifth data center building that Aruba planned for its IT3 campus in Ponte San Pietro. Aruba dropped it, and the campus's approved final layout has four data center buildings.
0.23 miles Aruba: IT3 DC-D
DC-D is the fourth building on Aruba's IT3 campus in Ponte San Pietro, under construction in the last unconverted Legler mill shed (about 15,000 m²) at the south-west of the site.
0.28 miles Aruba: IT3 DC-B
9.12 miles Vitali: Arcene Innovation Hub
The Innovation Hub is a planned 181,000-square-meter data center campus developed by the Vitali Group on the former Tre Cantoni quarry site in Arcene, Northern Italy.
12.31 miles QTS: Vimercate, Milan
QTS Data Center Holdings is eyeing a massive three-building campus in Vimercate, located just 25 kilometers north of Milan.
13.54 miles Echelon: LIN10 Bldg-1
LIN10 Bldg-1 is the first building on Echelon's LIN10 campus, a converted former printing plant at Via della Costa 2, Treviglio, near Milan.
13.55 miles Echelon: LIN10 Bldg-2
This facility is part of Echelon's LIN10 campus in Milan.

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Campus with mountains in the background
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Entrance
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DC-A, DC-B, DC-C, DC-D, DC-E, and the Hydroelectric Plant on the campus
IT3 Campus with Building Labeled
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DC-A, DC-B, DC-C, DC-D, DC-E, and the Hydroelectric Plant on the campus

Entrance to DC-A
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Photo taken in 2017
Another view of Datacenter A
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Photo taken in 2017

Modern Turnstyle
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Freight Elevator
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Hall way that leads to the Data Halls
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Empty Data Hall ready for customer deployments
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Stacked Power Infrastructure
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Chiller Plant
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Aruba Hydroelectric plant on the River Brembo helps to power the data center campus
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Bridge to Electrical Plant
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Dam for hydro power
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Hydro Turbine
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Turbine Room
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Map of the Campus
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Aruba owned facilities are in orange
Map of Aruba Cloud's Facilities
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Aruba owned facilities are in orange

Operating Company

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Aruba S.p.A., founded in 1994, is the largest Web service company in Italy. Aruba offers 4 main services: Hosting and Domains, e-Security, Cloud and Data Center services. The company is also active within major European markets such as the French, UK and German market, and claims leadership in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and a consolidated presence in Poland and Hungary.

Aruba manages over 2.1 million domains, over 7.4 million email accounts, over 4.1 million PEC accounts, 31.000 servers and a total of over 4.7 million customers. In addition, Arbua provides dedicated server, housing and colocation services, managed services, digital signature, digital preservation and smart cards. In 2011 the company began offering Cloud services. Aruba has extensive experience in managing data centers with a European network capable of hosting over 60.000 servers.

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