We purposely sized the new datacentre as compact as possible, to avoid having wasted space. The primary reason has been to ensure that our new office suite, part of the same wing of Turing House, has as much space as possible to accommodate our growth.
This has a side-effect of meaning we can improve cooling efficiency by increasing the density. However it does pose some interesting challenges when getting into the minutiae of the floorplan for the datacentre. I spent most of today trying various combinations of floor-plans, to achive the optimum use of the space, whilst keeping corridors as wide as possible.
Our finalised layout will give us an average of 16A per cabinet, ~ 4kW, with an ability to take higher-density cabinets up to 20A, ~ 5kW. This means better cabinet utilisation, i.e. no half-full cabinets, which tends to be the norm for most datacentres.
I’ve spent a lot of time working on the floor-plan over the past few weeks, but I think it’s worth the extra effort as it’s critical to the success of the facility.
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