Is the acceptance phase of a Datacenter-type building a necessary evil?

More and more GigaDatacenters are emerging from the ground in the USA but also in Europe within the GAFA group with an electrical power greater than 14 MW, which swallows up each year the equivalent of the consumption of a city comprising between 20,000 and 50,000 inhabitants. To cool the servers that are hosted, it is essential to set up complex air conditioning systems that can cool these 14M Watts of power, most of which are transformed into heat. In addition, the security of the center must be ensured (video surveillance, alarm feedback, fire detection and extinction, etc.) so that the computer center never stops.

In order for the computer center to be always operational, the major Datacenter certification bodies consider that the AOR phase of assistance with reception operations is an essential phase for both GigaDatacenters and small computer centers. It is not the size that justifies the criticality but the applications that are hosted. To overcome this strong criticality, the electrical and air conditioning installations are redundant enough to meet the operating criteria as well as other safety and security installations. Hence the high complexity of the installations and interaction between batches and the need to test them upstream.

But what does this AOR phase consist of?:

It is a question of checking the as-built plans of the computer room and checking the files of the executed works transmitted by the companies, It is also a question of accepting the works lot by lot by load tests to check the so-called normal operation and finally by so-called failure tests. Finally, reports of acceptance of the works are drawn up.

Note that to support you in this process, Rentaload offers solutions for the rental of load banks to carry out these load and breakdown tests, but also Rentaload offers to take charge of this AOR phase with its teams. Interesting