Data centres
A building whose product is power and cooling delivered to computing equipment. The capacity that matters is IT load in megawatts, not floor area, and the grid connection is usually the long pole.
By country
Data centres on record
New Albany, United States
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New Albany, United States
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New Albany, United States
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What this type is built from
The packages a facility of this type buys, in rough build order. Each one is a different set of suppliers, and the order is why a delay early in the sequence moves everything after it.
- 1Site and civil works
- 2High-voltage connection
- 3Power distribution
- 4Standby power
- 5Cooling
- 6Export packing
- 7Third-party inspection
- 8Expediting
- 9Project cargo
- 10Customs clearance
- 11Bonded storage
- 12IT fit-out
- 13Rigging and heavy lift
- 14Structured cabling
- 15Networking
- 16Fire suppression
- 17Physical security
- 18Building management and DCIM
- 19Commissioning
- 20Operations and maintenance
How capacity is stated
A figure without its basis is not a fact about a building. Every capacity here carries the wording its source used.
- MW
Where the records come from
The classes of public record that key this facility type. A facility enters the graph through one of these, not through an announcement alone.
- Planning and permitting portals
- Connection and interconnection queues
- Listed-company disclosures
Suppliers for this work
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