When my son was in Junior school as part of a project, we did a historic walk around my hometown, Newbury.
This shift forces data centre developers to adjust their strategies.As Lincoln puts it:.
‘I’m in conversations all the time, whether or not it’s a new client that’s asking for, you know, 100 plus KW per rack… it’s pushing us to innovate pretty hard.’.More powerful servers mean that traditional air cooling can become inadequate.Lincoln suggests that the move towards alternative cooling methods - like liquid cooling - must balance innovation with the reliability needed to maintain near-perfect uptime.
Robust testing and early collaboration with manufacturers and utility providers are key to ensuring new solutions are both effective and safe..Sustainable Power: Turning a liability into an opportunity.
As data centres draw ever larger amounts of power, sustainability becomes central.
Lincoln describes Edged’s parent organisation, Endeavour, as taking a holistic view of energy usage and carbon reduction.We increased design freedom, giving users the ability to do things like reposition entrances in order to better respond to a site.. One of the biggest additions came with the introduction of geospatial data layers, which provide better understanding of the context around a site.
This includes things like building heights, land classifications which reference conservation areas, transport infrastructure to gauge density more appropriately, highways information, which has a bearing on construction access restrictions, and even types of trees..In future, we hope to develop the app even further, to include elements like early stage embodied carbon assessment capability as well as expanding PRiSM’s geographical footprint which would require incorporating even more typologies.
Developing versions for other cities is also a possibility.. A Step Towards a Truly Digital Planning Approach.One thing we won’t do with PRiSM is duplicate functionality which already exists elsewhere.