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Aligned Energy data centersAligned is an infrastructure technology company that offers adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions to cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers. Our intelligent infrastructure allows densification and vertical growth within the same footprint, enabling customers to scale up without disruption, all while maintaining industry-leading Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). By reducing the energy, water and space needed to operate, our data center solutions, combined with our patented cooling technology, offer businesses a competitive advantage by improving sustainability, reliability and their bottom line.

Headquarters: Plano, TX
Web: http://www.aligneddc.com/

Quantum Loophole Expands its Vision for Massive Data Center Cities

By Rich Miller - June 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

Quantum Loophole CEO Josh Snowhorn with reels of 2-inch innerduct for a new fiber ring connecting the company's data center campus in Adamstown, Md. to the Northern Virginia cloud cluster. (Photo: Rich Miller)

As it breaks ground on its first mega-campus in Maryland, data center developer Quantum Loophole is laying the groundwork for similar “data center cities” in Dallas, Chicago and Silicon Valley, says CEO Josh Snowhorn.

Tagged With: Aligned, Maryland, Northern Virginia, Quantum Loophole

The Top 10 Data Center Stories for May 2022

By Rich Miller - June 1, 2022 Leave a Comment

The M&A deals keep coming in the data center industry, and readers of Data Center Frontier are paying close attention. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in May 2022, in order of article views.

Tagged With: Aligned, Belden, Cologix, DigitalBridge, Meta, NTT Global Data Centers Americas, NVIDIA, Quantum Loophole, Schneider Electric, switch, The Siemon Company

Aligned Expands Green Loan by $1.4 Billion to Accelerate Growth

By Rich Miller - May 19, 2022 Leave a Comment

A large data hall in an Aligned facility. (Photo: Aligned)

Aligned Data Centers has increased its sustainability-linked loan from $375 million to $1.75 billion . The additional $1.4 billion in funding provides Aligned with more resources to build data centers for its customers, many of whom are working to reduce their climate impact.

Tagged With: Aligned, Sustainable Finance

Quantum Loophole’s ‘Data Center City’ Secures Aligned as First Tenant

By Rich Miller - May 10, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Aligned Ashburn data center in Northern Virginia. (Photo: Aligned)

Aligned Data Centers has signed an agreement to acquire land, power, and water at Quantum Loophole’s massive new data center campus in Maryland, a big step toward extending the Northern Virginia cloud cluster across the Potomac into Frederick County.

Tagged With: Aligned, Maryland, Quantum Loophole

Disruptive Innovation: Innovating Beyond Technology

By Kathy Hitchens - April 11, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Truly game changing data centers recognize that innovation must be a holistic process and look beyond technology to every other aspect of the business. DCF’s Rich Miller and Aligned’s Andrew Schapp and Eric Jacobs will discuss disruptive data center innovation during an April 19 webinar.

Tagged With: Aligned, Cooling, Data Center Design, data center innovations, Financing

Top 10 Data Center Stories of January 2022

By Rich Miller - February 1, 2022

Rows of equipment in the Meta AI Research SuperCluster, Meta AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), a new supercomputer to enable new AI models. (Photo: Meta)

Future trends and the emerging metaverse were hot topics on Data Center Frontier last month. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in January 2022.

Tagged With: Aligned, American Real Estate, DataBank, Digital Realty, enchanted rock, Equinix, Flexential, Iron Mountain, Meta, Metaverse, Roblox, TikTok

Environmental Stewardship Begins with Sustainable Infrastructure

By Voices of the Industry - January 28, 2022

The Aligned Ashburn data center in Northern Virginia. (Photo: Aligned)

Sustainability has become a critical corporate value as consumers and even investors across a range of industries. Phill Lawson-Shanks of Aligned explores why sustainable data center infrastructure is critical for a sustainable future.

Tagged With: Aligned, Cloud, data center sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Hyperscale

Better Business, Better World: Why Sustainability-Linked Financing Will Influence the Data Center Industry

By Voices of the Industry - January 7, 2022

A cooling wall of Delta-3 units inside an Aligned data center. (Photo: Aligned)

While a sustainability-linked loan can be used for any purpose, the hallmark of this debt instrument is that the borrower’s performance is measured against predetermined sustainability objectives which affect the interest rate, incentivizing improved performance over time. Anubhav Raj, CFO of Aligned, explores how sustainability-linked financing will influence the data center industry in years to come. 

Tagged With: Aligned, data center sustainability, Financing, Renewable Energy

Roundable Recap: Data Center Thought Leaders Look Ahead to 2022

By Rich Miller - December 17, 2021

Our Executive Roundtable for 4Q 2021 explores four topics: the outlook for hyperscale computing in 2022, trends in enterprise IT spending, the key themes in data center cooling, and the potential impact of “metaverse” technologies on the data center industry.

Tagged With: Aligned, Data Aire, EdgeConneX, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Nortek, Sabey Data Centers

The Metaverse Will Need A Lot of Data Centers

By Rich Miller - December 16, 2021

Horizon Worlds is a social VR experience launched by Meta (Facebook) where users can create and explore together. (Image: Meta)

Whatever form they take, metaverse technologies are bound to be resource-intensive applications. We asked our Roundtable experts to put on their futurist hats and explore what the metaverse might mean for digital infrastructure.

Tagged With: Aligned, Data Aire, EdgeConneX, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Nortek, Sabey Data Centers

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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Empower Your Edge Computing — for the Cloud

Today, colocation providers like EdgeConneX are working with leading cloud and IT service providers to bring their solutions to the edge, deployed in close proximity to enterprises, so they can easily access secure, local connectivity to the cloud for any and all of their workloads. Download the new white paper from EdgeConnex exploring edge computing for the cloud that offers an in-depth look at what factors have driven the cloud to the mainstream, the challenges to enterprise cloud adoption, security concerns, spend, the benefits of an integrated cloud solution and more.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

An aerial view of major facilities in Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Virginia. (Image: Loudoun County)

Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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Charting the future of data centers and cloud computing. We write about what’s next for the Internet, and the innovations that will take us there. We tell the story of the digital economy through the data center facilities that power cloud computing and the people who build them. Read more ...
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Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 20 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution. Meet the DCF team.

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