LightEdge Altoona 1 Data Center

Lightedge Facility:

Four separate modular 5,000 square feet data centers

12” reinforced pre-cast concrete walls with joints reinforced and tested to 200+ MPH winds

Dry membrane, double concrete roofing system to maximize tear off resistance, no roof penetrations in machine occupied areas

Build to suit up to 20,000 square feet of additional data center space on property

Fire Suppression - FM200 (DC1 and DC2), Dry Pipe (DC3 and DC4)

Power:

S+1 diversified electrical within the building utilizing five distinct UPS, Generator and ATS systems

On-site diesel generators (24 hour capacity) with 4.5 MW of on-site power generation capability

Iowa power costs among the lowest in the nation

Substation diversity

Primary’s capacity = 33 MVA

Secondary’s capacity = 66 MVA

Underground redundant feeds

Power diversity up to 225 watts/sq ft

HVACs support 1200kW per DC

S+1 diversied electrical:

5 UPS, generators & ATS systems

HVAC:

Cooling through packaged HVAC units located at the side of the facility to minimize roof penetrations

600 tons yields 2.4 MW

Up to 240 tons of cooling capacity per data center in an N+1 configuration

Data Centers 1 and 2 - Hot aisle / Cold aisle design, down-draft cooling

Data Centers 3 and 4 - Raised floor

Future build-outs will take advantage of Iowa’s annual 1,100 Cooling Degree Days to lower power costs and offer some of the lowest PUEs in the nation.

Dual power fed HVAC units with Variable Speed Fans

Humidity set point of 44

Building Management System to ensure conformance with ASHRAE TC 9.9 standards for A1 environments

Network:

Carrier Agnostic connectivity through partnerships with:

Sprint, CenturyLink, WindStream, Cox, AT&T, Mediacom, TW Telecom, XO Communications, Level 3, INS and Bandwidth.com

Data Center is located within 1 mile of major telecommunication highway. Dark Fiber and Lit Services are available from a multitude of providers including:

Verizon, Sprint, ATT, Century Link, Windstream, Unite, PinPoint, Level 3, Iowa Network Services, Mediacom, US Networks, Cogent and more

Private fiber services linking LightEdge Data Center to Denver, CO and Chicago, IL (Cermac) for large scale Internet and carrier network integration

Compliance:

Data center physical security complies with PCI-DSS v2.0, HIPAA / HITECH guidelines and is audited annually using SSAE-16 SOC I Type II

ISO 20000 certified

Bulletproof glass at main entrance, secure check-in desk, Man traps, biometrics and tailgate sensors for all data center entrances

Closed-circuit TV monitored 24/7/365 with video archiving

24x7 manned Network Operations Center with engineering staff performing hourly walk-arounds

Distance	Site	About
0.06 miles	Lightedge Altoona 2
2.63 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
2.65 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
2.71 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
2.72 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
2.86 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
3.06 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, operates a large data center campus in Altoona, Iowa, located at 100 Share Way NW.
3.14 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
3.15 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
3.17 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
3.17 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This data center is a part of Meta's Altoona Campus in Iowa.
4.09 miles	Tract: Altoona Tech Park	Tract is planning Altoona Technology Park, a 468-acre development in the Des Moines data center region with close proximity to hyperscale and wholesale data center providers.
5.63 miles	Edged Energy: Des Moines DSM01	Data center firm Edged is developing a new 105,000-square-foot (9,755 sqm) facility, known as Edged Des Moines, on a 17.5-acre site outside Des Moines, Iowa.
8.44 miles	Lumen Des Moines
10.29 miles	Consolidated Des Moines
10.42 miles	Cologix: Des Moines DSM3
10.45 miles	Cologix DSM1	DSM1 occupies 4,000 square feet of space and enables connectivity to 26 unique networks in the Cologix Meet-Me-Room with direct access to the DesMoinesIX internet exchange.
14.78 miles	Connect Data Centers: Des Moines	US investment firm Oppidan's Des Moines data center spans 60,589 sq ft.
16.65 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	In July 2023, Microsoft gained a permit for a data center at 3655 S.E. Soteria Ave. Issued to Microsoft's contractor, the Weitz Company, the permit was for a 184,600 sq ft facility under the description DSM 14.
16.68 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
17.17 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This building will be a part of Microsoft Corp.'s Ginger East data center campus.
17.18 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	The first phase of the Ginger East project, which sits on a 146-acre plot east of Veterans Parkway at SE Maffitt Lake Road, consists of a 250,000 sq ft (23,200 sqm) data center building located near the company's existing Alluvion data center.
17.25 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	In 2023, a permit valued at $358 million was issued for a 245,000-square-foot data center in Microsoft’s Ginger East campus.
17.31 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	In February 2024, the West Des Moines Planning and Zoning Commission approved site plans for two new data centers at Microsoft Corp.'s Ginger East campus.
17.38 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	In February 2024, the West Des Moines Planning and Zoning Commission approved site plans for two new data centers at Microsoft Corp.'s Ginger East campus.

Distance

Site

About

0.06 miles

Lightedge Altoona 2

2.63 miles