Cirrus Data Services plans 160MW campus in Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cirrus Data Services believes the Salt Lake City region can support hyperscale and wholesale data center colocation offerings and this week publicly announced the View 78 data center campus in Midvale; a suburb of Salt Lake City. The first phase includes a 32MW wholesale and hyperscale data center colocation offering; subsequent plans include the development and operations up to 160MW of data center capacity on the site.

“We are excited to announce the launch of Cirrus Data Services and that we are entering the data center colocation market,” said Gardner Company CEO, Christian Gardner. “The Salt Lake City data center market is growing; major firms and organizations are coming to Utah because of the many advantages this State has to offer.” James Jeffries, President of Cirrus Data Services, stated, “Our new data center campus located in the View 78 development in Midvale is designed for both hyperscale and wholesale tenants including cloud service providers, enterprise companies, and other large-scale tenants. Our product is intended to be scalable and provide an adaptable solution to meet the needs of sophisticated tenants in this sector.”

Cirrus Data Services View 78 Data Center is designed to meet current demands. CirrusDS is developing a campus of purpose-built data center facilities; offering Tier III and Tier II topographies. The first phase will include over 224,000 square feet of data center space with a technology load capacity of 32MW. The first phase will also include approximately 18,000 square feet of office space including technical burn-in and storage areas. The facility’s flexible power distribution and cooling design enable both low-density and high-density racks. The facility will be the first data center campus for Cirrus Data Services; the expansion plans for this site includes up to 160MW of capacity with over 1,120,000 square feet of data center infrastructure. Additional expansion plans include a second large scale campus in Salt Lake City.

CirrusDS has assembled a strong team for the development, building and operations of the View 78 Data Center. The team has been actively working together to bring the CirrusDS vision to fruition. In conjunction with Gardner Company’s development arm the team includes Arch|Nexus, Spectrum Engineers, and Revealey Engineering. FirstDigital is providing initial fiber, network connectivity, and telecommunications services. The campus will include additional fiber vendors to meet tenant requirements. Doug Thimm, lead architect with Arch|Nexus, said, “This is an exciting project. The design team is mobilized and ready to execute our design effort.” He continued by saying, “This data center is designed to meet the demands of today’s evolving requirements.” The team is working closely with the local utilities and are on track to meet the power needs and overall delivery schedule. Road and utility infrastructure for the View 78 development are currently under construction. Award of the construction contract for the data center is scheduled to occur in July. Andrew Lewis said, “We here at JLL are extremely excited to be a part of bringing this cutting-edge project to market. The vision that Cirrus Data Services has for this site will absolutely raise the bar for data centers.”

The region is an established colocation data center market. Utah has favorable tax incentives along with low operational costs when compared to other States; Utah has some of the lowest power costs in the country. Aligned Energy recently announced the retrofit of a former semiconductor chip fabrication facility in West Jordan servicing the wholesale market. Other existing multi-tenant data center offerings in the Salt Lake City market include DataBank, which operates three facilities in the region, and Flexential, which has seven data centers in the Salt Lake City area. In addition, other major firms have facilities in this region including the recent announcement from Facebook that they are building a campus in Eagle Mountain.

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