{"id":8612,"date":"2026-05-15T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:26:41","slug":"first-images-of-gensler-designed-60-building-data-centre-development-in-utah-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/first-images-of-gensler-designed-60-building-data-centre-development-in-utah-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"First images of Gensler-designed 60-building data centre development in Utah revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Infrastructure firm O’Leary Digital has exclusively revealed the first images of the Stratos Hyperscale Data Center in Box Elder County, Utah<\/a>, which is being designed by architecture studio Gensler<\/a> as one of the largest data centres in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 7.5-gigawatt Stratos Hyperscale Data Center is part of the Wonder Valley development and may become one of the largest data centres in the world. It will be built on one of the sites in a 40,000-acre<\/a> parcel designated for development by Utah’s governmental Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA).<\/p>\n

The huge development is set to contain 60 data centres on an initial 10,000-acre portion of the site. Confusion surrounding the overall size of the site has led some to report that the data centre will be twice the size of Manhattan<\/a>. This does not appear to be accurate.<\/p>\n

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Gensler has designed the Stratos Hyperscale Data Center for O’Leary Digital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

O’Leary Digital,<\/a> led by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary, has commissioned Gensler<\/a> to design the master plan and architecture for the data centre development.<\/p>\n

The master plan shows six data centre clusters spaced out and with a buffer on the edge of the property, solar arrays and a “mixed-use innovation district”.<\/p>\n

Renderings of structures show buildings with\u00a0a similar design language to the Wonder Valley data centre in Canada<\/a>, also designed by Gensler. However, the structures have pale siding, adjusted to the desert climate.<\/p>\n

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The site will have several data centre clusters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The entries have deep recesses with large panes of glass and the broad sides have horizontal bands of colouration with different shades.<\/p>\n

O’Leary Digital CEO Paul Palandjian told Dezeen that O’Leary Digital is seeking to deviate from the typical, drab data center design, which he called “eyesores”.<\/p>\n

“The default for this industry is a windowless concrete & metal box dropped on a slab \u2013 ugly monolithic buildings that are eyesores,” said Palandjian.<\/p>\n

“We refused to do that. So, the question we kept asking Gensler was how we can reimagine data center design. We want a beautiful poetic design that belongs to the West Desert.”<\/p>\n

“Art and architecture are a real passion of mine, and I wanted to bring out-of-the-box thinking \u2013 pun intended \u2013 to a category that has almost none. Our job is to honor the place it sits in and to be poetic about it.”<\/p>\n