Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What are the main infrastructure requirements for a data centre?
The seven things a data centre needs to work and the business decisions on load, growth and downtime that must come first.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
Power, cooling, resilience and network choices for data centres and AI workloads. Practical guidance for owners, designers and operators working on…
Featured guide
Reading pathways
Understand the basics
Plan and specify
All articles
16 articles
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is PUE and what does it tell you about data centre efficiency?
What PUE measures, how the boundary and method change the result, and which metrics to track alongside it.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What are the main infrastructure requirements for a data centre?
The seven things a data centre needs to work and the business decisions on load, growth and downtime that must come first.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What makes a building AI-ready?
Four tests of AI readiness for a building and a six-step assessment for one priority use case.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
How is an AI data centre different from a traditional data centre?
How facilities for accelerated computing differ from conventional data centres in density, network, layout and failure behaviour.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is the difference between Tier I, II, III and IV data centres?
What Uptime Institute Tiers I to IV describe, what they do not guarantee and how to verify a design or provider's claim.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is the difference between edge AI and cloud AI for buildings?
How to decide which building AI functions run on site and which in the cloud, and how to keep advice separate from control.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is the difference between DCIM, BMS and EPMS?
How DCIM, BMS and EPMS divide the work in a data centre, and how to set authoritative sources and alarm routing.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is the difference between an enterprise, colocation and edge data centre?
How enterprise, colocation and edge facilities differ in ownership, responsibility and fit for different workloads.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
How do you design structured cabling for a data centre?
How to design data centre cabling from the network architecture to pathways, with clear design responsibilities and tender requirements.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What data does a building need before AI can be useful?
The data, context and history different building AI use cases need, and how to test quality against the task.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
How do you plan data centre power and cooling capacity?
How to plan data centre power and cooling from a realistic IT load profile, through the electrical and cooling chain.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What networking infrastructure do AI workloads require?
The separate networks AI clusters use, why fabrics are built for the full unit and how to accept on workload performance.
Related service
Our servicesIf you are sizing power, cooling or networks for a data centre or AI workload, we can discuss the design assumptions.
Contact Pagin Consulting