CONSTRUCTION about energy , because wasted energy results in cost for the customer ,” Lampach says . “ So from day one we tried to have very good efficiency of the building . Our first building ’ s efficiency was 1.6 and nowadays the latest building is 1.3 .”
Alongside buying hydroelectricity from Scandinavia , LuxConnect makes use of the KioWatt project , a cogeneration plant where waste wood is used to produce electricity via waste heat . LuxConnect utilises this heat transformed into cold that would otherwise be lost
MULTI-TIERED
LuxConnects boasts the ability to offer a variety of tiers in its facilities but , unusually , it started with the most complex tier and worked backwards in response to customer demand .
“ When LuxConnect started it was Tier IV only , but over time we learnt that customers don ’ t always require the highest standard for all their applications ,” Lampach says . “ This opened up more opportunities . We can separate our Tier IV concept into two Tier II ’ s ; in the Tier IV case there are two separate installations feeding into the server room , but for Tier II there is just one , so that was quite easy to establish . From the operational side this is easy to do too , because we know exactly how to do it . The same goes for Tier III .”
In fact , LuxConnect is the only data centre business in the world to offer this range of tiers , and has its partners to thank for much of its technical capability . For the physical infrastructure , LuxConnect enlisted GHMT , a business which Lampach describes as “ real professionals in their domain ” and that supported LuxConnect during every step of construction . GHMT developed the concept for the Faraday cages , ensuring that all of the necessary wire mesh had bonded correctly with the concrete and supervising alongside LuxConnect .
Köhl , a long-term partner of LuxConnect , provided and installed many of the materials involved in the company ’ s facilities . Lampach says : “ They are professionals , and the advantage is that they are a known manufacturer . They
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