# Ark Cleveland Independence Data Center

PJM data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/ark-cleveland-independence-data-center

Ark's Cleveland-area data center is located in Independence at the site formerly branded Involta. An operator-hosted 2022 expansion event identifies 7300 East Pleasant Valley Road, while its current facility page describes redundant electrical paths and economized cooling. Ark's Ohio overview separately reports 2.5 MW of utility capacity for Cleveland; the facility page's 1 MW availability headline is an offering, not measured consumption or a new utility allocation. A dedicated fiber ring links the Independence and Akron locations. The exact Independence building lies in The Illuminating Company's PJM territory, separate from Ark's two Akron facilities and regional portfolio totals.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: facility
- Location: 7300 East Pleasant Valley Road, Independence, OH
- Operator: Ark Data Centers (exact asset) — https://www.arkdna.com/data-centers/ohio/cleveland/

## Power and grid context

- ISO/RTO: PJM Interconnection
- Electric utility: The Illuminating Company

## Development

- Construction: Involta's public invitation for August 23, 2022 celebrated a recent groundbreaking for an expansion at its Independence facility. That invitation establishes an expansion milestone, not the completion date or current capacity of the expanded space. Its older brochure, dated September 22, 2020, described a 23,000-plus-square-foot facility.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation
- Operating context: Ark lists 10,000 square feet of conditioned space for Cleveland and offers shared or private colocation, suites and halls. Its facility specifications list 288 rack positions; that design figure does not establish occupied cabinets.

## Sources

- [https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/regions.jsf](https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/regions.jsf)
- [https://go.involta.com/Cleveland-Expansion-Event](https://go.involta.com/Cleveland-Expansion-Event)
- [https://tims.dot.state.oh.us/ags/rest/services/Boundaries/PUCO_Electric_Service_Areas/MapServer/0/query?f=json&where=COMPANY_NAME%3D%27The+Illuminating+Company%27&geometry=-81.6327814%2C41.361071&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&outFields=OBJECTID%2CCOMPANY_NAME&returnGeometry=false](https://tims.dot.state.oh.us/ags/rest/services/Boundaries/PUCO_Electric_Service_Areas/MapServer/0/query?f=json&where=COMPANY_NAME%3D%27The+Illuminating+Company%27&geometry=-81.6327814%2C41.361071&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&outFields=OBJECTID%2CCOMPANY_NAME&returnGeometry=false)
- [https://www.arkdna.com/about/news/involta-is-now-ark/](https://www.arkdna.com/about/news/involta-is-now-ark/)
- [https://www.arkdna.com/data-centers/ohio/](https://www.arkdna.com/data-centers/ohio/)
- [https://www.arkdna.com/data-centers/ohio/cleveland/](https://www.arkdna.com/data-centers/ohio/cleveland/)
- [https://www.firstenergycorp.com/supplierservices/oh/supplier_registration/pjm-short-name.html](https://www.firstenergycorp.com/supplierservices/oh/supplier_registration/pjm-short-name.html)
- [https://www.involta.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/INV_CIO_Cleveland_Independence.pdf](https://www.involta.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/INV_CIO_Cleveland_Independence.pdf)
- [https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1238705019](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1238705019)

## Data quality

- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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