DHISCO Inc., an online hotel booking service, recently signed a colocation agreement in the Plano facility. The Aligned adaptive data center enables clients to mix-and-match rack densities from 1 to 50kW while guaranteeing a 1.15 power usage effectiveness.

“DHISCO is the largest processor of electronic hotel transactions and requires the best technology to deliver over 10 billion transactions each and every month,” said Bryan Bradley, DHISCO's CIO. “We chose to partner with Aligned Energy because they allow us access to state-of-the-art, secure facilities, innovative power management and patented cooling technology which helps us meet the demands of thousands of hotels and online travel outlets.”

Aligned Energy is able to achieve environmental efficiency with its patented cooling solution that uses up to 80% less energy and 85% less water, which is very important to Aligned's clients, says Jakob Carnemark, CEO of Aligned Energy.

“We are thrilled to partner with DHISCO as our Plano facility continues to fill up and look forward to accommodating their fast growth as well as other clients in our hyper-scale data center environment engineered with a commitment to environmental sustainability,” says Carnemark.

Because demand for a variety of densities appeals to data center clients, Aligned Energy has leased the first of three data halls in its Plano facility (phase one). Phase two will begin once demand dictates.

“We are seeing a strong pipeline of leasing,” Carnemark tells GlobeSt.com. “We will start our next phase on demand, possibly in 2018. We are talking to a number of potential clients and it could be sooner. One of the trends we are seeing is high density, and cloud users are driving demands higher. We are adaptive to clients' needs and offer low to high density. The demand is accelerating faster than we anticipated.”

PLANO, TX—Dallas-Fort Worth is the second largest data center market in the United States after 47 megawatts of new deliveries in 2016 brought the total inventory to 208 MW, according to a recent report from CBRE Group Inc. Northern Virginia leads with 557 MW.

Dallas-Fort Worth absorbed 37.6 MW in 2016, slightly below the roughly 43 MW tallied in 2015, with the bulk of activity occurring in smaller increments. Wholesale transactions averaged slightly more than 1 MW for the year. Supply is at an all-time high: there is currently 41 MW of existing wholesale capacity available in DFW, distributed across 15 data center facilities and 10 providers, according to CBRE.

The vacancy rate for existing data center space in DFW remained relatively static year-over-year at 19.8% in fourth 2016, and new supply is maintaining a balanced pace with net absorption. An additional 49.5 MW is currently under construction, with nearly all being delivered on a speculative basis. New capacity is expected to come online across 11 different projects, providing a wide array of options for data center tenants in North Texas in 2017, says the report.

One such data center option is by Aligned Energy, in the form of its Uptime Institute Tier III-certified adaptive data center. Aligned Energy is a data center infrastructure technology company that offers colocation and build-to-scale solutions to cloud, telecom, enterprise and service providers.

DHISCO Inc., an online hotel booking service, recently signed a colocation agreement in the Plano facility. The Aligned adaptive data center enables clients to mix-and-match rack densities from 1 to 50kW while guaranteeing a 1.15 power usage effectiveness.

“DHISCO is the largest processor of electronic hotel transactions and requires the best technology to deliver over 10 billion transactions each and every month,” said Bryan Bradley, DHISCO's CIO. “We chose to partner with Aligned Energy because they allow us access to state-of-the-art, secure facilities, innovative power management and patented cooling technology which helps us meet the demands of thousands of hotels and online travel outlets.”

Aligned Energy is able to achieve environmental efficiency with its patented cooling solution that uses up to 80% less energy and 85% less water, which is very important to Aligned's clients, says Jakob Carnemark, CEO of Aligned Energy.

“We are thrilled to partner with DHISCO as our Plano facility continues to fill up and look forward to accommodating their fast growth as well as other clients in our hyper-scale data center environment engineered with a commitment to environmental sustainability,” says Carnemark.

Because demand for a variety of densities appeals to data center clients, Aligned Energy has leased the first of three data halls in its Plano facility (phase one). Phase two will begin once demand dictates.

“We are seeing a strong pipeline of leasing,” Carnemark tells GlobeSt.com. “We will start our next phase on demand, possibly in 2018. We are talking to a number of potential clients and it could be sooner. One of the trends we are seeing is high density, and cloud users are driving demands higher. We are adaptive to clients' needs and offer low to high density. The demand is accelerating faster than we anticipated.”