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Aligned has taken a big step into that future, arranging $1.75 billion in sustainable financing to expand its digital infrastructure business. The package includes $1.35 billion in securitized notes that qualify as sustainable loans, which Aligned says is the first such funding in the data center industry, as well as $375 million in a new sustainability-linked loan (SLL).

Aligned is raising about $1.25 billion in debt, which will fund the data-center company’s expansion amid rising demand for sustainable infrastructure.

Aligned is developing a new data center at its campus outside Salt Lake City, Utah. The US data center firm has acquired a ‘new multi-megawatt site’ in the Salt Lake Metro Area, to in order develop a new build-to-suit facility.

This engaging Nomad Futurist podcast takes listeners on an exciting ride with Phill Lawson-Shanks, a fearless IT innovator whose insatiable curiosity, daring, and ability to see patterns led him to insights and accomplishments that have helped advance the world of IT and critical infrastructure.

The company’s latest debt raise will finance construction of a ‘waterless’ data center in Salt Lake City, and other projects

There are tremendous benefits to increasing density, and it’s not a complex, exotic, or expensive proposition. It’s simple, and, when done right, can deliver lower OpEx and CapEx, greater efficiencies, and a host of other advantages.

In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Eric Jacobs, CRO of Aligned, discusses the factors that make Chicago a prime location for data center investment.

US data center company Aligned has secured an extra $250 million in sustainability-linked debt.

The Data Center Frontier Executive Roundtable features insights from industry executives with lengthy experience in the data center industry. Here’s a look at the insights from Andrew Schaap, CEO of Aligned.

In the latest episode of 'Inside Data Centre Podcast',  Phill Lawson-Shanks, Chief Innovation Officer at Aligned discusses Aligned's new data center development in Chicago and the importance of innovation within the data center sector.

Considering the proliferation of compute-intensive workloads that are driving the need for high-density racks — think high-performance computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications — it’s reasonable to believe that increasing density is now the new data center reality.

When it comes to data centers, power density, typically measured in kilowatts (kW) per rack, has become a critical, if not a contentious metric in design, capacity planning and the provisioning of cooling and power.

Aligned VP of Operations and Safety Officer, Billie Haggard, speaks to FacilitiesNet about how military veterans can solve the data center talent shortage.

Company’s Chief Executive Officer recognized as one of region’s top business leaders.

Andrew has significantly accelerated the company’s growth by driving the delivery of data center solutions with industry-leading technologies and adaptive infrastructure.

Located at 505 Northwest Avenue in Northlake, IL, ORD-01 will feature the Company’s patented and award-winning Delta3™ cooling technology, which utilizes up to 80% less energy and 85% less water than traditional cooling systems to improve PUE, reduce environmental impact, and lower the TCO for customers.

Aligned is entering the Suburban Chicago market, and has broken ground on a 100-megawatt data center campus in Northlake, Ill., the company said today. The Chicago project continues the steady expansion of Aligned’s footprint, which now includes five markets in the U.S.

The technological leap global companies’ digital transformation initiatives took over the last nine months was expected to unfold over five to ten years. With more and more vital B2B and B2C services becoming digitized every day and with wide adoption of video conferencing and cloud collaboration tools, many organizations have determined that their teams can operate remotely and outside of traditional corporate office hubs, at least for the foreseeable future.

Aligned has broken ground on its latest hyperscale data center campus, in the Chicago area, the company has announced.

A few months ago, we looked into the opportunity for veterans in the data center and internet infrastructure industry with Salute Mission Critical. Today, we return to that topic to talk with Aligned’s Billie Haggard.

As Loudoun, the home of the world’s largest concentration of data centers, marked International Data Center Day on Wednesday, the Data Center Coalition gave back by sponsoring meals for vaccination workers.