Location
Central Iowa has consistently been ranked as one of the lowest-risk areas for data center placement. The threat of natural disasters is extremely minimal.
Data Center Fast Facts
Data Center Facilities and Amenities
Des Moines Data Center Campus Specifications
Building Data
- 12” reinforced pre-cast concrete walls with joints reinforced and tested to 200+ MPH winds
- Dry membrane, double concrete roofing system to maximize tear off resistance, no roof penetrations in machine occupied areas
- Build to suit up to 20,000 square feet of additional data center space on property
- Facility #1 is 30,000 square feet total broken into four separate quadrants
- Facility #2 is 73,000 square feet total and slated to open in Q2 2017
Power
- Power density up to 225 watts/square foot
- Redundant power utility feeds delivered underground to eliminate outages due to wind, snow and ice
- S+1 diversified electrical within the building utilizing five distinct UPS, generator and ATS systems
- On-site diesel generators (24-hour capacity) with 4.5 MW of on-site power generation capability
- Iowa power costs among the lowest in the nation
Cooling
- Cooling through packaged HVAC units located at the side of the facilities to minimize roof penetrations
- Facility #1 has up to 240 tons of cooling capacity per data center quadrant in an N+1 configuration
- Future build-outs will take advantage of Iowa’s annual 1,100 cooling degree days to lower power costs and offer some of the lowest PUEs in the nation
Security & Compliance
- Data center physical security complies with PCI-DSS v3.0, HIPAA / HITECH guidelines, and is audited annually using SSAE 18 SOC I, 2 & 3 Type II and ISO 20000 & 27001 requirements
- Bulletproof glass at main entrance, secure check-in desk, man traps, biometrics and tailgate sensors for all data center entrances
- Closed-circuit TV monitored 24/7/365 with video archiving
- 24×7 manned Network Operations Center with engineering staff performing hourly walk-arounds
Connectivity
- Carrier-agnostic connectivity through partnerships with:
- Sprint, CenturyLink, WindStream, Cox, AT&T, Mediacom, TW Telecom, XO Communications, Level 3, Aureon and Bandwidth.com
- Data centers are located within 1 mile of major telecommunication highway. Dark fiber and lit services are available from a multitude of providers including:
- Verizon, Sprint, ATT, Century Link, Windstream, Unite, PinPoint, Level 3, Aureon, Mediacom, US Networks, Cogent and more
- Private fiber services linking LightEdge data centers to Denver, CO and Chicago, IL (Cermac) for large scale Internet and carrier network integration
- Dual OC-48 SONET rings and flexible private metro Ethernet capability up to 10Gb
- Redundant DWDM based fiber ring with expansion of up to 400 Gbps of usable bandwidth
- Redundant Cisco-based MPLS network
Cloud
- Colocation customers may take advantage of LightEdge managed Cloud IT Services to augment their hosted platforms. Cloud Services include:
- Private and hybrid cloud computing, managed storage and backup, managed firewall, and unified communications
- LightEdge engineering staff is able to take shipments, install equipment and act as remote hands
- Each LightEdge data center, which hosts LightEdge Cloud Services, meets or exceeds the concurrent maintainability requirements of the Tier III Uptime Institutes standards.
