Switch, Inc. is an American company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that develops and operates the SUPERNAP data center facilities and provides colocation, telecommunications, cloud services, and content ecosystems.
[8] In 2015, the company became the first data center service in the U.S. to participate in President Barack Obama's American Business Act on Climate Pledge.
[18][19] The Core Campus located in Las Vegas consists of eleven operating data centers spanning over 2 million square feet (190,000 m2).
The Switch Stations will produce 179-megawatts of power and were originally part of a joint construction project through First Solar in partnership with NV Energy.
[27] In January, 2015 Switch announced a $4 billion expansion plan to build a new data center campus east of Reno in Storey County.
At completion, it will reach up to 1.8 million square feet (170,000 m2) making it the largest data center campus in the eastern U.S.[31][32] In 2014, Switch formed SUPERNAP International in partnership with ACDC Fund and its two limited partners Orascom TMT Investments and Accelero Capital to build data centers based on designs from the Tier IV-rated Switch SUPERNAP U.S. facilities.
[33][34] The SUPERNAP data center campus in Siziano, Italy, will be 452,084 sq ft (42,000.0 m2) and have 40-megawatt power distributed via two 132kV transmission paths.
iSupercomputer Cherry Creek will be housed on Switch's campus, with researchers accessing the computer through the SUPERNAP facilities' telecommunications network.
[41] In 2017, the firm donated $3.4 million in data center services to the University of Nevada, Reno for a new supercomputer, called Pronghorn.
The supercomputer will be housed in the TAHOE RENO 1 data center, and it is expected that the initial hardware installation will be completed in September 2017.