Calibrant Energy, a Macquarie Asset Management portfolio company, has penned a first-of-its-kind energy agreement with Aligned Data Centers as a solution to unlock utility power for data centers, one of the industry's most urgent constraints.
Aligned is one of the largest and fastest-growing private data center developers in the Americas. Calibrant will deploy an on-site 31-megawatt/62-megawatt-hour battery energy storage system at Aligned’s data center campus in the Pacific Northwest. The on-site system, planned to be operational in 2026, will enable the facility to come online and scale operations years earlier than would be possible with traditional utility upgrades.
Calibrant and Aligned have been partnering with a regional utility in the Pacific Northwest since the start of negotiations to explore flexibility as a means to increase and accelerate interconnection. Aligned’s adaptive data center solutions power customers’ most demanding cloud, artificial intel
