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Reported geography
Source-reported location for University of Utah Downtown Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- University of Utah (UIT)
- Address and locality
- Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County · Utah
- Official metro area
- Salt Lake City-Murray, UT
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 1 MW; Planned: 10 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 13 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-002006
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Cooling
- Not established
Provider notes
Water. Hot-aisle containment, dry air chillers, evaporative cooling, water misters for humidity, and direct air economization about 80% of the year. PUE is 1.2 (2018).
What the source record says
79,000 sq ft (including 16,000 sq ft of warehouse) in a 1938 building downtown. The site was previously scoped as a data center by MCI WorldCom. It is scalable to 10 MW, with 1 MW in use as of 2018. It hosts most CHPC production systems. The coordinates are approximate.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2012-04 · source-reported operational
UIT took full occupancy in April 2012
Sources and attribution
- Downtown Data Center · University of Utah Information Technology
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID university-of-utah-downtown-data-center-salt-lake-city-ut. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-002006
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Salt Lake City, UT (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: University of Utah (UIT)
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2012-04 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Operational: 1 MW; Planned: 10 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-13
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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