Site search for a data centre: power, grid access and siting criteria.
A study of the best location for a neocloud data centre, starting from access to power.
Who worked on it
In figures
- 12
- location tracks across Switzerland
- 5
- conditions every site must meet
- 12 MW
- at the meter for 10 MW of computing
- 105 GWh
- a year at full load
Power first
For a data centre, land is easy and power is not. The study started from the grid’s published capacity at each node, then looked for land nearby.
Five conditions on the same parcel
A site moves forward only when one parcel has all five: land that can be secured, a power connection that can be delivered, a zoning that allows the use, cooling and environmental clearance, and two independent fibre routes.
What came out
The twelve tracks, ranked as the order in which to call the utilities and the landowners, with existing data centres as the benchmark, and the documents each site must produce before anyone pays for land: a signed connection study with capacity, voltage, date and cost.
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