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“Six percent of data centres in Europe are Colt,” said Guy Ruddock, VP Operations at Colt DCS. “We have over 250 sites across Europe so we are a big player. At the same time we found that the industry really wanted this flexibility, and customers are asking us to provide a data centre for them, either on their site or our own site. Now these customers can have additional flexibility, that nobody except us can currently provide.”
“Previously it was in the CIO’s interest to over-provision when building new data centres. And that cost is absolutely fearsome,” said Ruddock. He then cited an example of a new data centre in London, where they had worked out that it would be cheaper to install each server in a room in the Park Lane Hotel for a year, which would work out cheaper than building the new data centre.
“When someone identified a new site for a data centre, there was significant work to get power to that site, but this product will test that thinking,” said Geoghegan. “A shift is coming in the sense about a conventional two year build, but now it is much quicker. Customers can opt to step it up for power as they grow.”
“Nobody in the data centre industry thought about this before (constructing a dc to match existing needs and then grow it), but the oil industry thought about this problem way back in late 1980s, when it build oil platforms to be scalable,” said Ruddock.
“This option is going to become the normal option for customers that don’t have a lot of money to spend on data centres,” said Ruddock. “When companies were flush with cash, OPEX was not a big issue, but now it is.”
Colt claims that it also offers improved power efficiency. In addition to the 1500W and 1625W per square metre standard products already on offer today, Colt is able to increase the power density of its Modular Data Centre to up to 3000W per square metre or reduce it to as low as 750W per square metre, depending on the customer requirements. These new power densities are available across all new modular designs.
And Colt also provides the Tier levels 2, 3, 3+ or 4 throughout the entire range of Modular Data Centres. It is working with the Uptime Institute to have the new designs independently certified.
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It all sounds great, but why would I want a telecommunications company to provide me with an unpowered box. I still need power to the site I still need transformers and services, after-all 375sq/m. at 3,000w/m with a PUE of 1.3 is over 1.4MW.
If my firm was to invest the millions it would take I would want the PI of the worlds leading engineering and design companies and I'd want a deliver firm whose sole focus is the delivery of world-class data centres.
How long before the telecoms company decides it isn't a data centre developer and wants to go back to be a co-lo and teleco.....
Sorry guys just too risky, but good luck.