Integrated Design Group

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Church) keeps the largest archive of genealogical data in the world. The Salt Lake City-based organization chose Integrated Design Group to design its 65,000 SF data center. Integrated Design Group has completed design for the highly secure preservation site, which will store images and genealogical histories for The Church and its archives.

The design is for a new, ground-up, two-story facility. Based on The Church’s requirements, Integrated Design Group determined the power and cooling sizes and designed the workflow to meet the unique needs of this use. Due to the extreme value of the digital collection, several strategies were implemented to maintain proscribed environmental conditions so as to prevent degradation of the media should grid and generator power be unavailable for a protracted period of time. Several innovative passive and active methods are being implemented to meet these criteria, including placement of the digital archive in an underground enclosure to take advantage of the earth’s moderating temperatures.