The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), a non-profit organisation offering hyperscale innovations, has announced Aligned Data Centers as the first data centre provider to earn OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification.
This recognition marks a significant milestone for the leading technology infrastructure company, with its ORD-02 facility in Chicagoland becoming the first certified data centre under this rigorous programme.
Aligned Data Centers, an OCP Community member, is renowned for its innovation, efficiency, scalability, and commitment to sustainability. The company’s ORD-02 facility earned near-optimum results across its OCP Ready site assessment, exceeding standards across all key areas ranging from site access and logistics, to structural, cooling, connectivity, service, efficiency, and certifications.
The data centre also recently received Green Globes for New Construction certification from the Green Building Initiative (GBI), earning a rating of three Green Globes for its design and construction, demonstrating outstanding success in resource efficiency, environmental impact reduction, and occupant well-being. Aligned’s standardised methodologies are utilised across its data centre portfolio.
Aligned Data Centers’ ORD-02 certification coincides with the launch of the new OCP Ready for Hyperscale programme from the OCP.
This certification was co-led by OCP Project Leads, Mark Dansie and Scott Sharp, working within the Data Centre Facilities Project at the OCP, and was created to focus on hyperscale requirements relating to logistics, site access, base building infrastructure, and more.
By adhering to a community-led checklist and completing the approval process, data centre operators who achieve OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification demonstrate their readiness to accommodate hyperscale wholesale deployments across a wide range of criteria.
A primary goal of the programme is to help hyperscalers identify data centre locations where they can reserve space, power and cooling earlier in the cycle (e.g. core and shell, ready for fit-out, build-in-progress, and capacity available). For data centre operators, this certification not only proves hyperscale capabilities, it also avoids unusable critical infrastructure due to basic building constraints and reduces redundancies in the requirements gathering phase of customer engagements.
“Aligned is proud to receive the first-ever OCP Ready for Hyperscale Certification for our ORD-02 data centre, validating our longstanding capabilities in hyperscale deployments. The programme streamlines the data centre selection process for hyperscale companies, reducing potential risk and time-to-market,” says Andrew Schaap, CEO of Aligned Data Centers.
“Aligned’s data centres prioritise scalability and flexibility to meet our customers’ specific IT infrastructure requirements. From our flexible, sustainable designs to our industry-leading, high-density cooling technologies – including air, liquid, and hybrid configurations – we unlock seamless scaling for hyperscale businesses, maximising efficiency and effectiveness.”
“The New OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification aims to standardise facility criteria that are compatible with all hyperscalers. Establishing a standard for base-building infrastructure reduces the time required to select a suitable data centre for deployments. The data centre industry is growing rapidly and ensuring new facilities are compatible with the customer requirements is extremely important,” says Scott Sharp, OCP Ready Facilities Program Co-Lead.
“Aligned Data Centers’ Chicago OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification marks a new era for identifying colocation data centres optimised for hyperscale wholesale deployments. This collaborative effort among hyperscalers within the OCP Community not only validates Aligned’s readiness to accommodate hyperscale needs, but also underscores the impact that the OCP is having on the colocation industry to drive efficiency and innovation in the data centre sector,” says Mark Dansie, OCP Ready Facilities Program Lead.
Aligned Data Center’s ORD-02 data centre is now listed on the OCP Marketplace.
For more from Aligned Data Centers, click here.
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The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), a non-profit organisation offering hyperscale innovations, has announced Aligned Data Centers as the first data centre provider to earn OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification.
This recognition marks a significant milestone for the leading technology infrastructure company, with its ORD-02 facility in Chicagoland becoming the first certified data centre under this rigorous programme.
Aligned Data Centers, an OCP Community member, is renowned for its innovation, efficiency, scalability, and commitment to sustainability. The company’s ORD-02 facility earned near-optimum results across its OCP Ready site assessment, exceeding standards across all key areas ranging from site access and logistics, to structural, cooling, connectivity, service, efficiency, and certifications.
The data centre also recently received Green Globes for New Construction certification from the Green Building Initiative (GBI), earning a rating of three Green Globes for its design and construction, demonstrating outstanding success in resource efficiency, environmental impact reduction, and occupant well-being. Aligned’s standardised methodologies are utilised across its data centre portfolio.
Aligned Data Centers’ ORD-02 certification coincides with the launch of the new OCP Ready for Hyperscale programme from the OCP.
This certification was co-led by OCP Project Leads, Mark Dansie and Scott Sharp, working within the Data Centre Facilities Project at the OCP, and was created to focus on hyperscale requirements relating to logistics, site access, base building infrastructure, and more.
By adhering to a community-led checklist and completing the approval process, data centre operators who achieve OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification demonstrate their readiness to accommodate hyperscale wholesale deployments across a wide range of criteria.
A primary goal of the programme is to help hyperscalers identify data centre locations where they can reserve space, power and cooling earlier in the cycle (e.g. core and shell, ready for fit-out, build-in-progress, and capacity available). For data centre operators, this certification not only proves hyperscale capabilities, it also avoids unusable critical infrastructure due to basic building constraints and reduces redundancies in the requirements gathering phase of customer engagements.
“Aligned is proud to receive the first-ever OCP Ready for Hyperscale Certification for our ORD-02 data centre, validating our longstanding capabilities in hyperscale deployments. The programme streamlines the data centre selection process for hyperscale companies, reducing potential risk and time-to-market,” says Andrew Schaap, CEO of Aligned Data Centers.
“Aligned’s data centres prioritise scalability and flexibility to meet our customers’ specific IT infrastructure requirements. From our flexible, sustainable designs to our industry-leading, high-density cooling technologies – including air, liquid, and hybrid configurations – we unlock seamless scaling for hyperscale businesses, maximising efficiency and effectiveness.”
“The New OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification aims to standardise facility criteria that are compatible with all hyperscalers. Establishing a standard for base-building infrastructure reduces the time required to select a suitable data centre for deployments. The data centre industry is growing rapidly and ensuring new facilities are compatible with the customer requirements is extremely important,” says Scott Sharp, OCP Ready Facilities Program Co-Lead.
“Aligned Data Centers’ Chicago OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification marks a new era for identifying colocation data centres optimised for hyperscale wholesale deployments. This collaborative effort among hyperscalers within the OCP Community not only validates Aligned’s readiness to accommodate hyperscale needs, but also underscores the impact that the OCP is having on the colocation industry to drive efficiency and innovation in the data centre sector,” says Mark Dansie, OCP Ready Facilities Program Lead.
Aligned Data Center’s ORD-02 data centre is now listed on the OCP Marketplace.
For more from Aligned Data Centers, click here.
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