WYOMING HYPERSCALE
“ One of the things we wanted to do was to create a situation where our tenants could find things that they can ' t find anywhere else in the world ”
TRENTON THORNOCK FOUNDER AND MANAGING MEMBER , WYOMING HYPERSCALE
Just as he cherry-picked technologies , Thornock did the same with people .
“ If I were to build this from scratch and hire all of these people ,” explains Thornock , “ first of all , it probably wouldn ' t be possible . And even if I had all the money in the world and it was possible to get all of these people to leave their current organisations and join me at a startup , it would take years to put together this team .
Lumen Technologies , a Fortune 500 telecoms company , joins J . M . Gross Engineering ( and its owner John Gross ), engineering firm BCER and smart data centre solutions firm Submer as key partners in the project .
Sustainable goals all meet in one at Wyoming Hyperscale Wyoming Hyperscale is special in that , in a region experiencing a megadrought , it uses no water and while it uses far less energy than other data centres , what it does use is renewable .
“ There are two reasons we selected this location for the data centre ,” says Thornock . “ On the power side , we are surrounded by more than 400MW of existing wind power and our procurement agreement with Rocky Mountain Power has a 138KV power
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