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Views: 120 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-01-20 Origin: Site
Integrating data centers into the fabric of existing cities is always a challenge and can upset the people in the communities in which they are located.
Scott Noteboom, CTO of Quantum Loophole, asks, "Let's look at Northern Virginia, if we could master plan it and not just deploy it in a natural organic way, what would we do?"
Noteboom hopes to find the answer. We've acquired 2,000 acres in northern Virginia to build a data center campus, starting with the construction of a 1GW substation with primary transmission power lines that can be expanded to a maximum of 3GW," he says. "The company wants to serve as a master planner to develop hyperscale enterprise and hosted data center operators for data center campuses and build additional data centers.
I think there is a need to build larger, more efficient and more economical building blocks than what a single data center can accommodate," Noteboom said. In terms of power supply, from UPS power systems to using utility energy storage solutions at the community level for critical power-as-a-service."
Or for cooling facilities, using cooling-as-a-service operating at the community level rather than at the individual data center level. Data centers now need to act as network switches, and these data centers have hundreds of individual building projects that take months or even years to build fiber and connect into these buildings, all across the land and power divide," he said. We will pre-plan and build all of these services through the network center."
He suggests building end-to-end network centers that would then connect to surrounding data centers.
Noteboom says, "We're talking about scale - data centers in Northern Virginia are getting bigger and bigger. They're close to schools or close to apartment complexes, and the noise they make is annoying to people in neighboring communities. It's a strategy for organic growth, a miracle, and a remarkable thing. But when we look back, we say, "Can we look at all these attributes, remove the compelling attributes of the data center, remove all the complexity. And then when we build a master-planned community, we can look at what that community looks like?"
This vision may be built on a foundation of large data centers in data center campuses that are themselves part of large master-planned mega-campuses. But that's still not enough given the scale of the Internet - these data centers will be connected to growing data center facilities in metropolitan areas, as well as smaller edge sites spread throughout the region. This may force data center operators to liquidate as they find that the data center industry increasingly runs counter to the reality of human coexistence.