Brookhaven National Laboratory Scientific Data and Computing Center (Building 725)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy) · Upton, NY · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- exact
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 40.8679786, -72.876393
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- 3.6 MW
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 9.6 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Operational
Construction finished in 2021Q3 and the facility became operational in 2021Q4. IT load migrated from the old Building 515 data center through FY2023.
Underlying source
Source notes
The Computing Facility Revitalization project repurposed the former NSLS-I light-source building (Building 725) as a Tier III-class data center for the SDCC. It hosts the US ATLAS Tier-1 site, the US Belle II Tier-1 site, RHIC experiments (STAR, PHENIX, sPHENIX) and the BNL Institutional Cluster. The initial build-out supports 3.6 MW of IT load (recorded as operational) with 3.5 MW of diesel backup. The full build-out supports 9.6 MW of IT load (recorded as planned) with 14 MW of diesel backup and 478 racks. IT floor space is about 1,600 m2 (17,000 sq ft), and the design PUE target is 1.2 (a target, not a measured value). The paper's most recent data is from 2023. Coordinates are the OSM footprint centroid of building '725 - CSI'.
Sources and provenance
- Finalizing Transition to the New Data Center at BNL (Latif, Misawa, Zaytsev; CHEP 2023) · source retrieved 2026-10-09
- OpenStreetMap way 471294208: '725 - CSI' building, Brookhaven National Laboratory · source retrieved 2026-10-09
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.