DATA VALLEY GROUP
“ The actual building is part of the equipment ; it ’ s not just a shell but very much a part of the cooling system ”
JEF GORISSEN , COO
commercial data centre , so we lost a lot of time in the beginning ,” he says .
During this downtime , the company was able to work on and continue to develop the DataCube concept . This included a number of elements , but there was one that was key : a cooling system like no other . Gorissen spoke with local and international companies to try to develop a cooling system that would make Data Cubes unique before finding two Germanbased company to work with .
“ 90 % of energy usage in a data centre is computers and storage . When you put one megawatt into a data centre , you have 90 % waste through heat ,” he says . “ Data centres need cooling and we want the heat of our PPUs in our servers to be reused to produce cold for our cooling system . We want to generate
42 August 2017