Topic guide
Review publications on site selection, building layouts and the physical arrangement of data centre infrastructure. Explore capacity, environmental conditions, access and expansion in the context of your project.
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Cushman & Wakefield 2026
In the cost module, offer an all-in $/MW benchmark band with source and year and allow a market multiplier.
Schneider Electric 2015
Run the layout engine on a 600 mm / 2 ft grid with row-pair pitch presets A-D (14/16/16/18 ft), auto-selected from raised-floor, rear-door accessory, containment and density inputs.
Schneider Electric 2013
Build an intake wizard that makes the six parameters (criticality/Tier, IT kW, growth ramp with uncertainty, target PUE, average and peak kW/rack, capex budget) required before layout tools unlock, with live trade-offs between them.
7x24 Exchange Magazine 2025
Add a floor design load field (default 400 psf / about 19 kPa for white space) and check rack and liquid-cooling weight against it.
Turner & Townsend 2025
Seed the cost module with regional US$/W benchmarks by market and year, with an AI/liquid-cooled premium factor (7-10% default for the US).
Turner & Townsend 2026
In the cost module, provide a country and city $/W construction rate table and state the edition year.
Arup (Arup Foresight) 2025
Report both market-based and location-based carbon (hourly grid intensity) for a design.
Arup (Arup Foresight) 2025
Show WUE (L/kWh) next to PUE for every heat-rejection option.
Energy Efficiency (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 2019
In waste-heat sales, set outlet temperature by cooling technology (air 25-35 °C, liquid up to 60 °C, two-phase up to 90 °C) and check heat-pump requirement against the district-heating generation (45-55 °C for 4G).
Turner & Townsend 2024
In APAC site screening, weight power availability heavily.
Bryden Wood 2026
Warn when high-density liquid-cooled racks are placed on upper floors without a matching structural floor-load rating.
Uptime Institute Intelligence 2023
Size edge templates in the tens-to-hundreds of kW range.
Vertiv 2022
In a retrofit workflow identify zones above about 30 kW/rack and propose rear-door heat exchanger or direct liquid cooling options.
Cummins 2015
Compare candidate set sizes on count, footprint, install and maintenance cost for the target N+x, preferring fewer larger sets where the site allows.
U.S. Department of Energy 2025
Track as a regulatory and site news item linked to the DOE RFI and EO 14318 records.
U.S. Department of Energy / Federal Register 2025
For federal-site scenarios, keep water (million gal/day), grid market (MISO, PJM) and area (acres) as separate fields in site records.
U.S. Department of Energy / Federal Register 2025
When planning a large load connection, query the interconnection queue, transmission congestion and reconductoring potential for the relevant grid region early.
Jacobs 2023
Use the 6.75 Mgal/MW-yr figure as a sanity-check benchmark for evaporative designs.
ASHRAE 2020
Add vestibule or servicing-condition checks to the edge enclosure template.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / The Brattle Group 2026
The cost model should support large-load tariff features: minimum billing demand (% of contract MW), contract term, ramp schedule and collateral.
Uptime Institute Intelligence 2022
Add EMP and geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) to the risk register as an optional site hazard.
Enerji Piyasası Düzenleme Kurumu (EPDK) 2014
Grid-connection wizard (TR profile): ask for contracted power and voltage level, route requests above 36 kV to TEIAS and lower ones to the regional distribution company.
T.C. Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı 2001
In the earthing module (TR profile), enforce the 16 mm2 copper minimum for earthing conductors.
International Energy Agency 2026
In a site module for Korea and Japan, flag grid-congested metro regions and suggest renewable-rich regions.
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