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aspects: modularity – standard and repeatable block size, and flexibility, enabling a switch between air and liquid cooling with a swap of the AHU with a CDU.
“ He has incorporated more flexibility into our cooling designs, meaning we’ re able to switch relatively seamlessly with minimal cost between air and liquid cooling,” he says.“ Most other developers either come from former developers or are led by salespeople, whereas we’ re actually a team of former hyperscale customers who have come together to bring a solution to market that our customers can appreciate and relate to.”
He adds:“ The collective data centre infrastructure experience of our team is over a hundred years, which is impressive given that it’ s such a nascent and emergent industry. I’ m incredibly excited about what we’ re building.”
Building for the future Metrobloks is currently looking at urban plots of land for data centres with the aim of giving them a new lease of life.
“ These sites are in industrial areas next to high voltage transmission or substations and we’ re bringing state-of-the-art secure data centre infrastructure capacity to these locations that would otherwise not have had a revitalisation,” Ernest explains.“ Take Miami as an example, because it’ s a market we’ re very active in – we hope to bring a little over 15MWs of critical IT capacity to the Miami market. Given the recent efficiencies disrupting the AI market smaller facilities are in a unique position to make a larger impact.
“ What that means is that our 15MWs in Miami is equivalent to 150MWs in a remote location. With the added benefit that our Miami property can flex between AI / ML training and AI Inference with a reach of eight million people within a couple of milliseconds.”
As AI workload demands continue to swell, Metroblok’ s approach to scalable data centres seeks to invest in MEP solutions that are future proof.
128 April 2025