DATABANK and future-ready environments. This enables DataBank to adapt quickly and efficiently, building, commissioning and expanding data centres when customer capacity requirements shift. While ideal for modern AI workloads, the design also supports more traditional enterprise deployments.
DataBank has optimised the data centre floor space into 15,000 – 20,000 sq. ft. data hall that can easily be converted into traditional raised flooring. The company can transform a facility from 250 watts per square foot to double or greater by swapping in cooling distribution units, installing secondary water loops or deploying mechanical uninterruptible power supplies as pipeline demands become clear.
“ It means that, if we have things like CRAH units doing traditional air cooling we can easily shift to liquid cooling – a requirement that is becoming increasingly common as data centre demand changes,” Tony explains.
Historically workloads ran on air cooling almost exclusively, but liquid cooling is rapidly becoming essential for AI customers, banks and traditional colocation clients who have modified their designs.“ As much as 99 % of workloads have typically been air cooled in the past,” says Tony,“ but liquid cooling is becoming a very real design consideration.
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