Data Centre Magazine April 2024 | Page 89

SERVERFARM

“NOW , WHEN EVERYBODY ’ S BUILDING FROM THE GROUND UP , HALF OF OUR DEALS ARE ADAPT AND REUSE ”

AVNER PAPOUCHADO CEO , SERVERFARM as direct water cooling or direct to the server cooling .”
“ I ’ m proud to say that we don ’ t have a data centre in Phoenix , where a number of operators are using evaporative cooling in a place that ’ s dying of thirst .”
Jim Shanahan , Serverfarm COO , has responsibility for data centre operations . He says : “ Today AI , cloud and web scale means clients think in 10s or 100s of megawatts of power for data centre buildings and campuses . Combining this with the step changes in rack power densities that are currently approaching 40kW per rack and will soon reach 80kW and beyond and one can see a new era of design and management .
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