Lend Lease Plans Green Power Data Center Campus

DENVER-Lend Lease Corp. and the nonprofit Digital Energy Foundation are in the planning phase for a datacenter campus here that will be powered principally by wind, solar and biofuels. The project is part of the larger Horizon Uptown, a master-planned sustainable community under development south of Denver international Airport that calls for four million square feet of commercial office space as well as 1.3 million square feet of retail space and five distinct neighborhoods with 3,800 residential units.

Called the Center for Efficient Renewable Information Technology, Lend Lease says it will be the first data center campus to generate its own renewable energy from wind, solar and biofuels and to use it as the buildings’ primary energy sources. A company source tells GlobeSt.com the development will use connected on- and off-site wind, solar and biofuel generation facilities.

Plans call for 100,000 square feet of data center facilities in four buildings as well as the power generations facilities on 17 acres, Lend lease tells GlobeSt.com. The data center facilities would be built in the first phase, the power generation facilities in a second phase.