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tier-one data centre – they want to have predictability across the board and be able to say that what is in Iowa in the US is the same thing that ’ s in the Netherlands ’,” Turekexplains .
“ Prefab offers that predictability . Plus you have more control of the overall process , as opposed to a conventional construction project , where you may have different labour in different countries and different zones , each of which may have their own practices for doing things .”
“ For our customers , what they have at every site globally is cookie-cutter , so they know that , if there ' s some sort of firmware upgrade that they have to do , it ' s the same process each and every time .”
One critical element of this build process is the added flexibility , which applies to customers spanning a huge variety of industry use cases . These include everything from logistics to food , manufacturing to maps – sectors that are increasingly reliant on 5G technologies and can use modular data centres to quickly achieve the necessary infrastructure .
Alongside this , the replicated building approach enables a significantly faster build speed than the standard new data centre .
“ When you are building the whole data centre in the factory , everything that you would normally do on site can be done in parallel ,” adds Joe Kramer , the Director of Sales and Marketing for EcoStruxure Modular Data Centres at Schneider Electric .
“ Typically in a construction process , things have to follow a certain series of events . And with modular data centres , we turned that on its head and gave the customer different approaches , which manifest in being able to build faster .”
80 January 2023