Novva announced the launched Located in West Jordan, Utah, the campus will be the state’s largest purpose-built multi-tenant campus for enterprise clients. According to the announcement, Novva will invest over $1 billion in the next several years, spanning four phases, totaling over 1.5 million square feet of data center space.
Low cost power, low disaster risk
The first phase that has been started, consists of a substation, a 300,000 square foot Data Center Hall, and an additional 80,000 square feet for Novva headquarters. The data center will be available for client deployments in early 2021. Novva is targeting proximate and non-proximate clients, primarily competing with Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and Oregon.
Wes Swenson, founder and CEO of Novva talked about the new data center, saying,
“The facilities are state-of-the-art, imaginatively engineered, purpose-designed and built, and of such scale that it will accommodate 250KW clients to 30MW clients. We believe Utah is a hidden gem for one of the largeset wholesale colocation campuses in the United States. Some of its attributes include: low cost power, low disaster risk, low latency, dense long haul fiber, high altitude cold desert, central Western US location, an expanding International Airport, and no sales tax on equipment purchases. We can offer our clients some of the lowest TCO in the industry, located in a strategic part of the US for both hub and edge compute, while offering unparalleled service.”