DartPoints, a data center firm that provides enterprise colocation, cloud, and managed service solutions, says that the first phase of its strategy after an equity investment by NOVA Infrastructure will be expansion in Greenville and Columbia, South Carolina; Columbus, Indiana; and Cincinnati, Ohio.
The expansion will total 25 MW of additional utility capacity through early 2027. Each site will feature support as much as 120 kW per cabinet, which will be designed for architectural flexibility.
DartPoints says that configurations will include private suites, cage builds, and cabinet-level deployments. Customers will be able to use traditional air cooling, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, or hybrid systems.
The goal is to support use cases from artificial intelligence (AI) model training and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters to enterprise virtualization, without sacrificing performance, efficiency and scalability. The new data centers will meet thermal demands via both direct-to-chip liquid cooling and high-density air systems. This will support AI inference, machine learning, and data-intensive workloads.
“Our vision of delivering AI-ready environments in the next ring of U.S. markets is now becoming a reality through our partnership with NOVA Infrastructure,” DartPoints CEO Scott Willis said in a press release about the company strategy.
“By building closer to the people, applications and data that drive modern business, we’re enabling enterprises to meet the demands of latency-sensitive, distributed workloads. This expansion proves we’re putting our capital to work to deliver on that promise.”
DartPoints, which was founded in 2012, says its expansion strategy will provide localized and scalable infrastructure that will enable organizations to move beyond Tier 1 markets. The telecommunications and IT industry are scrambling to keep up with the great growth in capacity demands caused by artificial intelligence and other voracious new technologies.
Telecompetitor spoke with DartPoints in 2020, long before the NOVA Infrastructure investment. It’s evident from the conversation that Willis and DartPoints Chief Development Officer Loren Long anticipated the need for edge and remote data center services that the new strategy addresses.
