We’ve been tracking the evolution of new
modular data center designs [1] featuring pre-fabricated, factory-built components that can be assembled at a customer site, allowing data centers to be built faster and cheaper.
One of the more interesting players in this niche is
BladeRoom [2], a UK company that has adapted modular designs from its historic business building technical facilities and clean rooms for health care companies. Blade Room says it can provide modular, pre-fab data centers with a PUE approaching 1.15.
Here are two videos that offer a closer look at BladeRoom’s design approach. The first video provides an overview of the construction and deployment of BladeRoom modules, while the second video gives a walk-through of the cooling system for the modules. Each video runs about 90 seconds.
For more news on modular data centers, visit our
Data Center Containers [3]. For additional video, check out our
i/o Data Centers Channel [4] and the
Data Center Videos [5]channel on YouTube.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] modular data center designs: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/07/12/container-design-busting-out-of-the-box/
[2] BladeRoom: http://www.bladeroom.com/
[3] Data Center Containers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/technology/containers/
[4] i/o Data Centers Channel: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/io-data-centers/
[5] Data Center Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos
[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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