The Uptime Institute’s M&O Assessment and Stamp of Approval Program incorporates the learnings of over 25 years of data center assessments and consultations at critical facilities around the world into best practices.

The acquisition adds a data center facility in Herndon, Virginia, along with partner-operated colocation space and available power in northern Virginia and Los Angeles.

Strong demand over the past several years has resulted in a 373.6-MW data center construction pipeline in the primary markets, one-third of which has been pre-leased.

The expansion is driven by customer demand for additional capacity and Aligned’s Expand on Demand infrastructure in the data center market’s epicenter.

Driven by demand from large enterprise and cloud users, U.S. data center leasing and construction completions reached record levels in 2019, according to CBRE’s latest U.S. Data Center Trends Report.