Notes
Notes
Short pieces on how data centers are planned, designed and delivered, drawn from my work in the Middle East and Africa.
A Tier III design certificate is not a Tier III facility
Uptime Institute certifies the design, the constructed facility and its operation separately, and an investor should ask which one an announcement means.
In Africa, a data center brief starts with the utility, not the IT load
Phasing follows the capacity the utility commits to in writing, and generator autonomy and fuel storage follow its outage record.
In the Gulf, cooling an AI hall trades power against water
Direct liquid cooling runs on warmer water and cuts chiller hours, but the summer peak still needs compressors or evaporation.
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