Everyone wants to have it all, and in the technology and telecom world, data center customers are no exception. The industry has been seeking a new breed of facility that can meet a host of seemingly irreconcilable demands for sustainability, high-performance IT solutions, scalability and more. It turns out that Pittsburgh might be the birthplace for this next generation of digitally transformative data centers.
On the whole, data centers and their customers are seeking ways to meet five pressing mandates:
- Addressing climate change with sustainable, energy-efficient data center operations
- Migrating to the edge to satisfy needs for highly available, accessible and fast-moving decentralized platforms
- Accelerating IT outsourcing for greater ease and transitions to OPEX spending
- Transitioning to a more intelligent factory-built modular approach to create buildings that gain efficiencies and feature seamless expansions
- Meeting the burgeoning need for High-Performance Computing platforms capable of supporting next-gen use cases
That’s a lot to ask of a data center, even if they are highly complex and highly capable environments. But now, with this latest announcement, it’s time to believe that data center consumers really can have it all.
iM Critical, a data center and IT services company reshaping the future of IT infrastructure, is unveiling its modular Pittsburgh data center campus. The 10MW phase one campus, which will be available in Q3 2022, stands as a radical new standard for advanced data and computing needs. This campus will deliver full-stack IT services in a six nines environment, empowering High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications across AI, robotics, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, academic research, smart cities and more.
How does iM do it? Well, customers will leverage cooling capabilities to support over 35kW per rack with highly efficient and sustainability-forward solutions, alongside the company’s signature modular methods. This modularity enables unparalleled scalability and tailored customization, all supported by high-touch customer service from a highly experienced team. In fact, iM Critical’s team has a rich history of experience providing flexible colocation, and the company’s commitment to sustainability across its IT infrastructure keeps customers on the cutting edge of sustainability.
Here’s a few of the Pittsburgh location’s features:
- Low latency networks with sub-1ms metro optical rings
- Unique network route diversity to major peering points
- Full-stack managed IT services
- Big Data storage
- Onsite renewable energy source
- Strategic location within an SBA HUBZone/IRS opportunity zone
- High-speed public cloud on-ramp
“We deliver an enlightened approach to IT infrastructure, providing innovative customer solutions, helping organizations reach beyond today’s technology goals for greater ease and future-proofed outcomes,” comments Michael Roark, CEO of iM Critical. “The specialized experience gained by designing, engineering, building, owning and operating data centers for over 25 years inspired and informed our factory-built, fully-integrated modular data centers, which are based on tried-and-true engineering typologies and rapid deployment principles.”
To learn more, visit www.imcritical.com.
