Iron Mountain Announces the Largest Rooftop Solar Installation of Any Data Center in the US

BOSTON, Oct. 21, 2019 -- PRNewswire

Iron Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management company, announced today that they have closed on their largest on-site solar power-purchase agreement (PPA) contract to date. The 7.2 MW-rated solar installation at Iron Mountain's data center in Edison, New Jersey (NJE-1) is forecast to generate more than 9 Million KWhrs per year, which is enough electricity to power more than 1,000homes for a year. The solar installation will provide approximately 15 percent of the data center's current energy load.

Developed in collaboration with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, a leading clean energy company with approximately 21,000 MW of net generating capacity, and Black Bear Energy, which facilitated the project acting as the owner's representative to Iron Mountain, the project is slated for completion at the end of 2019. It will be the largest rooftop solar installation of any data center in the USA.