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new when you are building in Finland , but it stretches the schedule a bit .”
The company had no prior benchmark to follow in Finland - nor in Europe , as such a hybrid data centre had not been built before - but knew it must allow for the longest life cycle possible , be fully flexible and energy efficient . Ekman explains that previous data centres in Finland had been built mainly by international companies , with Finnish companies solely providing supporting roles . However , in the construction company ’ s new data centre , Ekman states : “ We wanted to make sure that we have sufficient international and local skills , in addition to the competence to design this mechanical and electrical ( MEP ) project .” To this effect , the company has selected Royal HaskoningDVH from Netherlands and Granlund Oy from Finland , the biggest Finnish MEP designer in the country . “ They are providing the MEP design together and it is good choice , because it combines both perspectives ,” Ekman adds . Although massive amounts of details have been accounted for , the majority of work is being designed and constructed at the same time due to time constraints , with the support of BIM technology to ensure minimal revisions and overlaps . Ekman explains : “ The new data centre will be 33,500 square metres in total , with white space taking up 15,000 square metres . The maximum number of racks will be 5,000 and it can house up to 200,000 servers .” The total IT power for the data centre will be 24 megawatts of power input , of which 6MW will be online in 2018 . The capacity will be increased further by expanding the data centre modularly , based on
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