2000 1 headquarters las vegas nevada united states key people rob roy ceo founder chairman number of employees 400 500 2 website supernap.com switch is a privately held company based in las vegas nevada . the company is the developer and operator of the supernap data center facilities and provides colocation telecommunications cloud services and content ecosystems . 1 3 contents 1 history 2 supernap facilities 3 supernap international 4 locations 5 customers 6 certifications and awards 7 supercomputer cherry creek 8 innevation center 8.1 innevation center las vegas 8.2 innevation center reno 9 references 10 relevant patents 11 external links history edit switch was founded in 2000 rob roy ceo and the organization s principal inventor and chief engineer . 4 rob roy holds 218 patents or patent pending claims for supernap designs and engineering that have been tier iv certified by the uptime institute . 5 switch is a clec competitive local exchange carrier that sells all telecommunications services . as of july 2015 half of the company s 14 top executives are women . 6 seventy percent of the current workforce are veterans . 7 in 2015 the company became the first data center provider in the u.s. to participate in president barack obama s american business act on climate pledge by announcing that they would join the second round of private sector companies participating in this effort . 8 under this pledge and following the company s commitment to sustainability switch is currently constructing the first of two solar farms which will provide renewable energy to its data centers . 9 as of january 1 2016 all switch data centers are 100 % powered by clean and renewable energy . 10 in 2016 switch joined the wwf wri renewable buyers principles with a public commitment to have their supernap michigan data centers also 100 % renewably powered . 11 supernap facilities edit in 2008 the company opened supernap 7 a 515 047 square foot 47 849.4 m2 facility its seventh data center . 1 switch has built and is operating in the las vegas digital exchange campus which currently consists of three operating supernap data centers spanning 1 510 926 square feet 140 369 m2 and covering supernap phases seven through nine . at completion of construction the las vegas digital exchange campus will measure more than 2.3 million square feet with 12 buildings completed . 5 12 as of 2016 supernap 10 is under construction in las vegas with two additional supernap data centers in planning phases . power to the supernap data facilities will be generated through two solar generation projects switch station i and switch station ii . the switch stations will produce 180 megawatts of power and are a joint construction project through first solar in partnership with nv energy . 13 in january 2015 switch announced a 4 billion expansion plan to build a new data center campus east of reno in storey county . the switch tahoe reno industrial campus is over 1 000 acres and is expected to have more than 6.4 million square feet of data center space at completion . that size will make it the largest data center campus in the world . 14 switch has begun construction on its first data center on the campus supernap tahoe reno 1 which will be more than 1 200 000 square feet 110 000 m2 have 150 mva power capacity and more than 83 000 tons of cooling capability making it the largest single data center in the world . this is the first of seven planned supernap data centers to be built at the tahoe reno industrial center . 15 in order to connect its las vegas and tahoe reno campus switch is building the switch superloop fiber network which will connect las vegas to reno through 500 miles 800 km of fiber . the switch superloop will extend directly to include los angeles and san francisco . 16 17 18 19 construction has begun on the switch supernap michigan campus at the site of the switch pyramid former steelcase pyramid in grand rapids with the first customers expected to occupy that space in mid 2016 . at completion the grand rapids campus will be more than two million square feet making it the largest data center campus in the eastern u.s. 20 supernap international edit 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 . the two new supernap international campus projects under construction are located in siziano italy slated to open late 2016 and the chonburi province thailand campus opening in early 2017 . 21 22 the supernap data center campus in siziano italy will be 452 084 square feet 42 000 m2 and have 40 megawatt power distributed via two 132kv transmission paths . 21 the 300 million usd 11 billion thb thailand supernap data center facility will have capacity for more than 6 000 data server racks . it will cover an area of nearly 75 rai 12 hectares and is located 27 kilometers away from an international cable landing station linking national and international telecoms and it carriers . 23 locations edit switch headquarters are based in las vegas with supernap data facilities and innevation centers located in northern and southern nevada . as of 2016 switch is expanding to the eastern united states with a planned data center campus located in grand rapids michigan . 24 las vegas digital exchange campus data center facility square footage status las vegas supernap 1 6 88 383 open las vegas supernap 7 515 047 open las vegas supernap 8 436 248 open las vegas supernap 9 471 248 open las vegas supernap 10 343 436 planned las vegas supernap 11 343 436 planned las vegas supernap 12 168 040 planned tahoe reno industrial campus data center facility square footage status tahoe reno 1 1 200 947 under construction tahoe reno 2 610 974 planned tahoe reno 3 935 064 planned tahoe reno 4 935 064 planned tahoe reno 5 935 064 planned tahoe reno 6 935 064 planned tahoe reno 7 935 064 planned customers edit switch has more than 1 000 clients including fortune 1000 companies . 4 25 users include ebay hp emc intel shutterfly machine zone game of war amgen dreamworks jp morgan chase sony boeing and fox broadcasting among others . 25 26 switch developed a 3 trillion purchasing cooperative to allow customers to collectively purchase telecommunications and other services across all of its campuses . 5 certifications and awards edit switch supernap 8 data center has received tier iv gold operational sustainability certificate from the uptime institute a tier iv constructed facility certificate and tier iv design certificate . in addition switch supernap 9 has received a tier iv gold operational sustainability certificate a tier iv design certificate and a tier iv constructed facility certificate . 27 28 supercomputer cherry creek edit in 2014 switch announced collaboration with intel and the university of nevada las vegas to give university researchers access to a powerful supercomputer . isupercomputer cherry creek will be housed on switch s campus with researchers accessing the computer through the supernap facilities telecommunications network to work in fields that include genetics and medicine . 29 innevation center edit innevation center las vegas edit switch has designed a 65 000 square foot innevation center in las vegas nevada . 21 the las vegas innevation center is a collaborative work space that allows members of the community non profits and other organizations to work and host events . 30 switch has also designed a 65 000 square foot innevation center in las vegas nevada . 31 innevation center reno edit in summer 2015 switch partnered with the university of nevada reno to develop the northern nevada based innevation center in a facility in downtown reno nevada . opened in september 2015 the northern nevada innevation center is a collaborative center for students entrepreneurs businesses investors and non profits . the 25 000 square foot building was purchased from city of reno . 19 switch contributed 500 000 for the interior build out and the center was funded from a 3 million grant from the governor s office of economic development goed . 20 the innevation center in reno is home to the nevada advanced autonomous systems innovation center naasic . funded by a grant from governor s office of economic development the center hosts programs to commercialize stationary robotic and advanced manufacturing systems unmanned aerial vehicles driverless cars and underwater robots . 32 references edit a b c jennifer robison 21 september 2011 . switch communications data center expanding to 2.2 million square feet . las vegas review journal . retrieved 10 june 2013 . switch supernap superloop colocation data center construction starts . overgaard kristi switch supernap named as the first and only registered hosting center for online gaming by the nevada gaming commission nevada business . may 31 2013 a b miller rich supernap 8 earns tier iv gold status for operations data center knowledge . august 5 2014 a b c luxford hollie supernap data centers branches out of the us data center dynamics . march 13 2014 rothberg daniel . with seven women among its top 14 executives switch sets itself apart . vegas inc. july 20 2015 evans pat . regional tech industry welcomes switch . grand rapids business journal . dec. 18 2015 booth nick . switch joins carbon campaign announces 100mw solar farm . datacenter dynamics . aug. 26 2015 sverdlik yevgeniy . switch joins obama s business climate pledge plans 100 mw solar project in nevada . data center knowledge . aug. 24 2015 http datacenterfrontier.com switch goes green renewable power supernaps switch announces plans to make supernap michigan data centers 100 percent green ; joins wwf wri renewable buyers energy principles press release . jan. 21 2016 miller rich shutterfly deploys 1 000 cabinets at switch supernap data center knowledge . october 16 2014 miller rich . switch goes green with renewable power for supernaps . data center frontier . jan. 5 2016 hidalgo jason . switch on the world s largest data center . reno gazette journal . hidalgo jason . on switch reno area supernap to be largest data center on earth . reno gazette journal . sept. 14 2015 miller rich . switch plans massive 1 billion supernap data center in reno data center knowledge . jan. 15 2015 1b switch data center near reno will be world s biggest . the associated press . january 16 2015 . retrieved january 25 2015 . 1b switch data center near reno will be world s biggest . abc news . january 16 2015 . retrieved january 16 2015 . a b switch plans massive 1 billion supernap data center in reno . january 16 2015 . retrieved january 25 2015 . a b harger jim . switch confirms plans for 5b investment 1 000 jobs at west michigan data center . nov. 16 2015 a b c longhitano lorenzo . internet aprir in italia il principale snodo di connettivit europeo . wired italy . oct. 6 2015 mah paul . construction begins on supernap thailand datacenter dynamics . jan. 27 2016 sverdlik yevgeniy . switch building supernap mega data center in thailand data center knowledge . jan. 14 2016 harger jim . 5b switch data center in steelcase pyramid is michigan s to lose mlive . nov 30 2015 a b brodkin john meet rob roy the man who built the supernap data center network world . jan. 22 2009 miller rich supernap 8 earns tier iv gold status for operations data center knowledge . august 5 2014 sverdlik yevgeniy . switch gets tier iv for second las vegas data center . data center knowledge . march 2