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EDGED DATA CENTERS CONTINUES EXPANSION WITH SUSTAINABLE OHIO FACILITY
Edged Energy has announced it will be expanding its North
American portfolio with a new world-class facility in New Albany , Ohio – the highly sought-after tech region known as the Silicon Heartland .
Edged Columbus will be built for high-density Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) workloads and equipped with advanced waterless cooling and ultra-efficient energy systems .
Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025 . Strategically located at 6525 New Albany Road East , less than 20 minutes from Downtown Columbus , the sustainable data centre will provide 24MW of critical capacity , conserve local water resources and dramatically reduce energy usage .
At a time of growing water scarcity when portions of Ohio are already in severe drought , Edged Columbus is expected to save nearly 95 million gallons of water each year compared to conventional data centres and deliver industry-leading energy efficiency PUE of 1.15 portfolio-wide .
Ohio is quickly becoming an established cloud computing hub , boasting a deep talent pool and exceptional fibre connectivity , with high-speed connections from coast to coast .
The Edged facility in Columbus will be outfitted with the ThermalWorks waterless cooling system , designed to support the intense demands of Generative AI and advanced computing .
The modular system supports densities of up to 70kW per rack with air cooling and 200kW per rack with plug-and-play liquid cooling integration . Unlike other waterless cooling solutions , this advanced technology is ultra-efficient , which helps Edged dramatically reduce energy overhead by 74 % compared with the global average PUE of 1.58 reported by the Uptime Institute .
Kingston Digital Europe , a flash memory affiliate of Kingston
Technology Company , a leader in memory products and technology solutions , has announced its latest data centre SSD , DC2000B – a high-performance PCIe 4.0 NVMe M . 2 SSD optimised for use in high-volume rack-mount servers as an internal boot drive .
Using the latest Gen 4x4 PCIe interface with 112-layer 3D TLC NAND , DC2000B is ideally suited for internal server boot drive applications as well for use in purpose-built systems applications where higher performance and reliability are required .
server workloads . Bringing the boot drives internal to the server preserves the valuable front-loading drive bays for data storage ,” Hollingsbee added .
DC2000B is available in 240GB , 480GB and 960GB capacities and is backed by a limited five-year warranty , free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability .
DC2000B includes onboard hardware-based power loss protection ( PLP ), a data protection feature not commonly found on M . 2 SSDs . It also includes a new integrated aluminium heatsink that helps to ensure broad thermal compatibility across a wide variety of system designs .
“ Whitebox server makers and Tier 1 server OEMs continue to equip their latest generation servers with M . 2 sockets for boot purposes as well as internal data caching ,” said Tony Hollingsbee , SSD Business Manager , Kingston EMEA .
“ DC2000B was designed to deliver the necessary performance and write endurance to handle a variety of high-duty cycle
KINGSTON DIGITAL LAUNCHES ENTERPRISE-CLASS NVME SSD FOR DATA CENTRE ENVIRONMENTS
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