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Mikeal Vincent describes the broadened focus:“ A lot of times when we’ re doing a site due diligence, sometimes it’ s specifically for water. Previously, I think there’ s been a lot of concern around power and fibre. Now, water is becoming an issue.”
The most successful projects treat infrastructure integration as a design opportunity rather than a constraint to be managed. When power, water, cooling and telecommunications systems are designed together from the beginning, they can achieve efficiencies and capabilities that retrofit approaches cannot match.
Advanced engineering and design solutions The stakes for getting data centre design wrong have never been higher. A single design error in a multi-billion-dollar facility can cost tens of millions to fix while causing operational disruptions that affect global services. This reality has driven adoption of engineering tools that enable virtual validation of every system before the first shovel hits the ground.
Kyle Kropf, Associate Vice President and Data Center Portfolio Solutions Lead, describes the transformation:“ The most significant advancement is how we use data to make good engineering decisions,
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