ASPEN, WY — As the data center services market is projected to grow by more than 50 percent by 2026, Wyoming Hyperscale White Box is leading the way globally to drive down the environmental impact of Big Tech within hyperscale applications. The company’s Aspen Mountain Hyperscale Data Center campus — the world’s first sustainable hyperscale data center development — will be a carbon-negative, multi-business ecosystem through 100 percent heat reuse.

The 120-MW master-planned campus will leverage 100 percent liquid-cooled, technology agnostic information technology equipment (ITE); will be renewably powered; and will eliminate industrial water consumption and the use of refrigerant.

“Designing and building the data center of the future to overcome climate change and environmental obstacles — while creating agile infrastructure to handle future challenges — requires technology like we've never seen as well as the support of a progressive, knowledgeable team,” said Trenton Thornock, Wyoming Hyperscale White Box Founder and Managing Member. “With our forward-thinking partners, we are setting the new standard for mission-critical facilities with this sustainable data center ecosystem.”

The full-service project team includes:

• FFKR Architects, executive architect
• Gensler, mission critical architect
• J.M. Gross Engineering, MEP engineer - liquid cooling
• Burns & McDonnell, MEP engineer - hyperscale
• Egg Geo, geothermal engineer
• BCER, telecommunications and security engineer
• Forell Elsesser, structural engineer
• CobbFendley, civil engineer
• Layton Construction, general contractor

The 30-MW first phase of the project is currently under construction and expected to begin commissioning in 2023.

• Through its use of liquid immersion cooling, the development will be 50 percent more power efficient and deliver energy cost savings of up to 95 percent compared to a traditional air-cooled data center.
• As an additional sustainability measure, the campus will be one of the first in the world to use nickel-zinc batteries as its sole source of backup energy storage.
• The project team is strategically designing the facility to achieve LEED v4.1 BD+C Gold certification.

• The project’s market-leading density-per-construction acre will result in one of the lowest development costs per acre for a U.S.-based hyperscale data center campus.
• This efficiency is made possible by 10-MW vaults consuming less than 15,500 square feet of space each.
• With 80-kW average rack density at scale and 100+kW/rack high-density compute capacity at scale, Aspen Mountain will be one of the most space-efficient data centers in the world.

• All waste heat generated from the initial development is designed to serve the adjacent Wyoming Hyperscale Indoor Farms facility, yielding fresher produce for local communities throughout Wasatch valley in Utah.
• The program’s heat reuse measure will also offset nearly 70 gallons per truckload of diesel from the current source of produce.
• To help minimize exacerbation of megadrought in the Western U.S., no industrial water will be consumed by the Aspen Mountain campus.

In addition to targeting industry-leading LEED certifications, the project team is also pursuing Uptime Institute Tier III certification for Data Center Design Documents and Constructed Data Center Facility.