Originally posted on iMasons.
Power. Land. Connectivity. These are the three key ingredients at the heart of any data center development. And all three face constraints as the digital infrastructure industry races to meet surging demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.
Big Sky Digital Infrastructure (BSDI), the flagship project of Quantica Infrastructure, brings all three ingredients to a shovel-ready site for hyperscale data center development northwest of Billings, Montana. What’s more, the power is clean, the land is abundant, and the fiber is a first for the rural community.
The site is expected to be connected to hundreds of miles of new fiber-ready underground conduit, enabling diverse routes to major metropolitan areas that ensure fast, resilient connectivity. In a region where much of the existing service relies on microwave transmission, this level of fiber connectivity represents a step change for both hyperscale operators and local users, according to BSDI.
“We own about 5,000 acres, plus we have another approximately 40,000 acres under leases for solar, wind and battery development,” said Damon Obie, a Montana native and General Counsel of Quantica Infrastructure. “The first phase of the project is 500 MW of renewable power and battery energy storage, expandable to 1 gigawatt.”
Quantica Infrastructure was born out of an observation that many hyperscale data center developers are in search of sites with access to abundant clean power. BSDI is designed to provide large-scale renewable generation and storage capacity to power data center operations.
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