T5’s Kings Mountain data center is located at 140 Riverside Court, Kings Mountain, NC 28086. The King Mountain powered data center shell is a low natural disaster risk facility, 185 MPH wind rated, and is a 35 minute drive to Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The data center is located within a 280 acres campus with three enterprise data center operations, and construction is purpose-built facility located just west of Charlotte, NC. Low risk of weather disruption, abundant inexpensive power, diverse long haul connectivity and a globally recognized tenant mix make Kings Mountain the right choice for businesses.
The T5 Kings Mountain data center is a Tier III infrastructure. The data center provides enterprise users complete control of the data center’s MEP design topology and expansion capability. The data center has 146,000 square feet of data center space, expandable to 468,000 square feet to meet the ever growing demands of businesses. The data center is LEED certified core and Shell certified. The data center offers aggressive state and local incentives with upto 100% abatement on machinery, equipment and software used in data centers and significantly reduced real and personal business property taxes. Facility control room monitoring all critical electrical, mechanical, fire suppression systems, and other activities 24 x 7 x 365.
The King Mountain data center has an on-site 180 MW substation from Duke Energy with sub-$0.05 per kWh electric utility costs. Dual circuit 100 kV grid connector provides diversity and redundancy at the transmission level. The entire electrical and mechanical infrastructure is configured in N+1 redundancy with an optional 2N UPS capability that keeps the critical system up and running. Green Energy, including 55% nuclear now, and 12.5% “renewable” energy by 2021. The data center is a carrier neutral facility, and has superior connectivity including AT&T local and LONG-HAUL, Time Warner Cable, Zayo, RST, DukeNet etc.
