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Renowned for building some of the largest and most advanced data centres in the world , Switch has been one of the leading players in the US market since its foundation in 2000 . The company divides the US into four latency zones , each covered by one of its Prime colocation facilities : The Citadel , The Core , The Pyramid and The Keep . Switch ’ s Citadel campus , located in Tahoe Reno , Nevada , will have a total capacity of 815MW upon completion , making it the world ’ s most powerful colocation campus . Switch is also responsible for inventing its own classification for data centre excellence : Tier 5 Platinum , which requires its data centres to be tested on more than 30 additional criteria than the industry-leading Tier 4 Gold certification from the Uptime institute .

DATA CENTRES CAMPUSES

LAS VEGAS , NEVADA

ROB ROY

DECEMBER 2020