Ascent Announces TransUnion As First Tenant in CH2 Data Center Colocation Suite
The newly constructed, state-of-the-art, energy efficient space is designed to offer multiple benefits to the risk information management company.
Ascent has announced that TransUnion is the first tenant to occupy the new wholesale colocation suite in its new CH2 data center facility. Located in Northlake, IL, the colocation suite offers an environmentally efficient and cost-effective data center. Ascent collaborated with TransUnion to custom design the data center to suit its specific technical needs.
CH2 is a 250,000-sq-ft multi-tenant facility featuring Ascent’s purpose-built Dynamic Data Center SuiteSM model and a shared infrastructure colocation suite. The newly constructed space offers low power usage effectiveness (PUE), free cooling for approximately 45% of the year, hot aisle containment and an onsite transmission substation. The data center provides reliable, efficiently transferred power at lower cost than other data centers in the area, and TransUnion’s space is equipped with 1.2 MW of power.