Switch The Citadel Campus (TAHOE RENO 1)

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Switch The Citadel Campus (TAHOE RENO 1) is a data center in Tahoe Reno, United States, operated by Switch, with 850 MW of published IT capacity, currently operational, opened in 2017.

2,000-acre PRIME campus in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center designed for up to 17.4 million sq ft and 850 MW at full build, powered by 100% renewable energy.

Switch The Citadel Campus (TAHOE RENO 1) — schematic illustration — Schematic illustration based on published specifications, not a photograph · air-cooled · in operation

Operator: Switch
City: Tahoe Reno, United States
Power, MW: 850 MW
Cooling: Air
Opened: 2017
Floor space: 120,774 m²
Max density: 42 kW/rack
Renewable energy: 100%

Coloprice Score

36 out of 100

Class D · #217 of 837 in United States

Resilience0/35
Compliance0/20
Transparency15/20
Scale11/15
Maturity10/10

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Few colocation projects match the stated ambition of Switch's Citadel Campus: 2,000 acres in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, master-planned for up to 17.4 million square feet of data center space and 850 MW of power. The first building, TAHOE RENO 1, opened in 2017 with up to 1.3 million square feet and 130 MW, built to the Tier IV Gold design standards Switch established in Las Vegas and supporting cabinet densities up to 42 kW. The campus sits next to the Tesla Gigafactory and runs entirely on renewable energy, with Switch holding the only 100 percent Clean Energy Index score in Greenpeace's industry ranking at the time of opening. Connectivity runs over the Switch SUPERLOOP, a roughly 500-mile fiber system that puts Silicon Valley about 4 milliseconds away, Las Vegas 7 and Los Angeles 9, combining Nevada's power economics of around 4.9 cents per kWh with near-Bay Area latency. The Citadel targets hyperscale, AI and enterprise customers deploying at campus scale.