Data Center Building Considerations

Deepak Jain deepak at ai.net
Wed Feb 4 22:48:53 UTC 2004



You really, really, want to talk to a professional who was been through 
a few of these designs with past customers. You can always tweak a 
design for better usability for your needs, but you definitely don't 
want to get burned by a rather steep learning curve in terms of capex 
dollars.

Just my advice,

Deepak Jain
AiNET

Aaron Thomas wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We are doing some preliminary research into relocating our facilities into a
> new building.  This building has not been built and we would like to have
> some input into at least one of the floors being suitable for a Data Center
> installation.  What I was wondering is if there are any serious design
> consideration with respect to floor loading, access for things like
> HVAC/Power, and general convenience issues such as cable management, access
> security and the like.
> 
> If anyone has recently gone through any kind of building design or similar
> work for this type of installation, perhaps you would be able to share your
> experience or information on the subject.
> 
> Either a reply to the list or off list would be great.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> 
> 



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