Data Centers and Infrastructure
Data centers designed around the hardware they will hold.
Capacity planning, white space layout, power and cooling coordination, structured cabling, physical security and commissioning, for server rooms and data halls.
Sound familiar
Where this usually starts.
A data center is designed backwards from the equipment it will run: how many kilowatts per rack, how much heat, how much weight and how many fibers. We start there, then plan white space, power distribution, cooling, cabling, containment, monitoring and physical security, working with the facility engineers and contractors who build the mechanical and electrical plant. The result is a room that can be expanded without being redesigned.
Scope
What is included.
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Capacity planning
Power, cooling, space and network demand modeled from the planned equipment.
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White space layout
Rack placement, hot and cold aisle containment, and clearances.
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Power distribution
UPS, PDUs and redundant feeds sized and coordinated with electrical contractors.
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Cooling coordination
Air or liquid cooling chosen and designed with mechanical engineers.
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Structured cabling
Copper and fiber plant designed, installed and labeled to standard.
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Monitoring and security
Environmental monitoring, DCIM, access control and CCTV.
Reference architecture
From the hall to the rack to the GPU.
Design and build own the facility layer of the data center architecture: power, cooling and the data hall itself, sized for the racks and AI compute that will run there.
What this service delivers here
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Power
Feeds and distribution sized for each rack's density, with redundancy you chose.
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Cooling
Air or liquid, designed for the heat the hardware will actually produce.
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Data hall
Layout, containment and physical security, in your building or a colocation site.
Before you start
Decisions to settle early.
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Build, refit or colocate
Building your own room gives control; refitting an existing one is cheaper; colocation moves the facility risk to an operator. The load, the timeline and the capital available decide.
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Air or liquid cooling
Air cooling is simpler and suits moderate density; liquid cooling suits accelerated systems. Many rooms need both, in separate zones.
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How much redundancy
Every redundant feed and unit costs money. The design matches redundancy to what an outage would cost the business.
Approach
How the work runs.
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Plan
Demand modeled from the equipment
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Design
Layout, power, cooling and cabling
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Build
Installation coordinated with contractors
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Commission
Tested at load before handover
Commercials
How it is bought.
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A fixed-fee assessment
We model power, cooling, space and network demand from your planned equipment and survey the existing room or site. You receive the capacity model, the constraints and a fixed design price.
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A fixed-price build
Design, coordination with electrical and mechanical contractors, cabling and commissioning for the scope agreed, priced before work starts.
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Running it afterwards
After handover, monitoring and on-site support can continue under our colocation and smart hands service.
Start with the assessment.
Worked example
A server room that became a data center.
Say a university's research computing has grown into a room never designed for it: racks are full, cooling struggles in summer, and new GPU servers need more power per rack than the room can deliver.
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Model
We model power, heat, weight and network demand from the planned equipment and the expected growth in research, rather than from the current room.
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Design
A new layout with aisle containment, higher density rows for accelerated systems and a structured cabling plant is drawn and agreed.
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Coordinate
The electrical and mechanical engineers design the power and cooling plant against our load model, and we check their designs against the IT need.
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Commission
The finished room is tested under load with heat load banks before any research system moves in, and the as-built drawings are handed over.
At the end, the university has a room designed for the equipment it will run, space to grow without a redesign, and documentation that matches what was built.
An illustration
Where it goes wrong
What we design out.
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Designing for today's load
A room sized for current equipment is outgrown by the next refresh. Pathways and capacity are sized for the end state.
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Cooling decided last
High density racks fail on heat, not space. Cooling is chosen with the equipment, not after it.
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Drawings that drift
As-built documentation that does not match the room misleads every later change. Drawings are updated at handover.
Outcomes
What it changes.
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Room to grow
Capacity is planned for the next generation of equipment, not just the current one.
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Fewer single points of failure
Redundancy is designed into power, cooling and network paths from the start.
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Documentation that matches reality
As-built drawings and cabling records make every future change safer.
How you will know it is working
- The room supports the planned density without hot spots.
- Expansion means installation, not redesign.
- Commissioning tests passed under load before handover.
- Drawings match what is installed.
You keep
What you have at the end.
Handover pack
five items
- Capacity and growth model Power, cooling, space and network demand from the planned equipment, and how it grows over the life of the facility.
- Layout and rack elevation drawings Rack placement, aisles, containment and clearances, and the position of each device in each rack.
- Power and cooling design coordination The IT load and redundancy given to the electrical and mechanical engineers, and their designs checked against it.
- Cabling design and test results The copper and fiber plant as designed and as installed, with the test results for every link.
- Commissioning report and as-built documentation How the room performed under load before handover, and drawings that match what was built.
The team
Who you work with.
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Data center architect
Models capacity and designs the layout, power distribution, cooling and cabling.
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Project engineer
Coordinates the electrical and mechanical contractors and keeps the build to the design.
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Commissioning engineer
Tests the room under load and signs off the as-built documentation.
What we need from you
- The equipment you plan to run, now and over the coming years.
- Drawings and surveys of the existing room or site.
- Your electrical and mechanical contractors, if you have them.
- The date the room must be ready.
Planned for the load it will carry in five years, not the one it carries today.
Questions
Questions we get asked.
Do you build the electrical and mechanical plant?
We design the IT space and coordinate with licensed electrical and mechanical contractors who build the plant, so the requirements of the equipment drive their design and nothing is lost between trades.
Can you design for high density AI racks?
Yes. Racks of current accelerators can draw several times the power of a typical enterprise rack, which changes power distribution, cooling and floor loading. We design those zones separately from general purpose space.
Which standards do you design to?
ANSI/TIA-942 and EN 50600 for data center infrastructure, ASHRAE guidance for thermal conditions, and TIA and ISO cabling standards, applied at the level of resilience the business actually needs.
Can you work in an existing, live facility?
Yes. Work in live spaces is planned around change windows, with method statements and rollback agreed with the facility operator before anything is touched.
What is hot and cold aisle containment?
A layout in which racks face each other so cold air is delivered to a shared aisle and hot exhaust is collected on the other side, with physical barriers that stop the two mixing. It makes cooling more efficient and predictable, and it is often the cheapest way to raise the density a room can support.
How do you plan for growth in a new facility?
By designing the full capacity the site can reach and building it in phases. Power, cooling and cable pathways are sized for the end state, and equipment is added as demand arrives, so expansion is installation rather than redesign.
What is DCIM?
Data center infrastructure management: software that tracks assets, space, power and environmental conditions across a facility. It shows where capacity remains, warns when conditions drift, and keeps the record of what is installed where.
Can you design to a particular Uptime Institute tier?
We design to the redundancy and maintainability concepts the tiers describe, and to ANSI/TIA-942 and EN 50600. Formal tier certification is awarded by the Uptime Institute itself, and where a client wants it, the design is prepared for that review.
Ask about your situation
Answered from this site, with its sources.
Where it is bought
Data center design and build, by sector and region.
Sectors that ask for it
Often paired with
What usually comes next.
- Data Centers and Infrastructure
AI data centers and GPU clusters
GPU clusters planned, racked, networked and validated for AI. - Networking
Data center networking
Spine-leaf, EVPN-VXLAN and AI fabrics built for east-west traffic. - Integration
Hardware and rack integration
Racks built, cabled, firmware-baselined and burned in before they ship.
CONTACT
Size the room for the equipment, not the other way around.
Share the equipment you plan to run and the space you have. We will return a capacity, power and cooling plan.
- Senior-led
- Accountable
- Direct
- Fixed-price options
- Compliance-ready
- 24/7 capable
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What happens next
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You pick the time
Share what equipment you plan to run, even roughly; we arrange the call around you.
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Thirty minutes, with an engineer
A data center engineer discusses the room, the load and the date it needs to be ready.
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A written assessment
You receive a written capacity model and a fixed design price.