INFOMART DATA CENTERS
In the growing industry of data centers , it ’ s all about differentiating yourself from the market , and Infomart Data Centers is a company that prides itself on flexibility of design .
With its latest data center project in Ashburn , Virginia , Infomart is leveraging all of its capability when it comes to adaptive , customizable and efficient design as it looks to renovate and upgrade what was formerly AOL ’ s Dulles Technology Center .
Infomart describes the Ashburn data center as its “ most efficient , sustainable and flexible product to date ,” and we spoke to some of the individuals at the forefront of the project about the electrical and mechanical transformation the building has undergone .
It ’ s changing from a 10MW facility to a 15MW facility , but without a massive increase in size . It ’ s the flexibility of design which will allow Infomart to tailor its solutions to a customer ’ s exact requirements .
Shawn Kane , Infomart ’ s Vice President of Engineering , was the first operations manager at the site when AOL originally opened the facility around two decades ago , and he has been part of the team which has overseen the transformation .
“ The kind of technology that was put in to support the infrastructure 20 years ago is dated ,” says Kane . “ So we ’ re either retrofitting or directly replacing the vast majority of all of the controls and most of the power conditioning equipment .”
“ It ’ s almost a complete strip out of the
58 October 2017