ALIGNED DATA CENTER PLANT STEEL FRAMEWORKS ARIZONA USA

(Youtube Video: Inside Aligned Energy's Arizona Colocation Data Center)

Project Back Ground of Aligned Data Center Plant Steel Frameworks,Arizona,USA 

In northwest Phoenix, Aligned Data Centers is building a massive facility that will use substantially less power and water due to an innovative design and construction plan.

Most conspicuously, this data center does not have the traditional raised floor seen in many centers throughout the country. Raised-floor systems deliver cooled air through perforated floor tiles. Other data centers cool equipment through cooled air overhead.

Aligned Data Center, 550,000-square-foot, 65MW facility, is one of the largest data centers in Arizona,USA and offers the industry’s first pay-for-use model to enterprises and service providers looking to reduce risk and improve control of their data center.

The 550,000-sq-ft Aligned Data Center—as well as a smaller, completed facility in Plano, Texas—uses Aligned Energy’s modularized infrastructure system that has been built into the facility, including patented eSYNC heat removal systems and power. As each cabinet is populated, the above-rack heat absorption system is connected to immediately normalize IT loads.


The project is also an exercise in modularity for increasing efficiencies thanks to the decentralized cooling approach. The white-space room, which houses servers, is surrounded by a central access point comprised of a multilevel system distribution spline that includes both active power, back-up power and heat rejection components. These central access points have been termed “thermal bus” by Aligned Energy. A steel exoskeleton was built around the central supply area with a roof-level concrete deck that can support roof-mounted generators and a large gantry crane for equipment changes.

As part of Aligned Energy's new take on data centers, an exoskeleton was erected over the center bay of the 550,000-sqft building. Steel erection took about four months and used nearly 1,100 tons of steel.

The steel exoskeleton supports a concrete pad of approximately 160,000 sq ft. Construction of the pad took roughly three weeks.

Project scale of  Aligned Data Center Plant Steel Frameworks,Arizona,USA 

The first phase of the project was built to Tier III reliability standards and includes 150,000 square feet of data center buildout to accommodate up to 14 megawatts of critical power and cooling with approximately 25,000 square feet of high-end office space. The mechanical and electrical plant has been engineered to reduce energy waste and consists of redundant generators, medium voltage uninterruptable power supply (UPS), static transfer switches, distribution gear, and the Inertech cooling infrastructure. Aligned Data Centers guarantee 1.15 Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) for its clients to help them reduce their monthly power bill.

The skills and craftsmanship of ZHM Huawu Steel are prominent throughout the design, engineering, fabrication, inspection, delivery and construction of this project.

In the steel structure’s white rooms and throughout the facility, the data center will have proprietary software controlling the LED lighting system

Workers test a heat rejection module at the Data Center

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