Internet Data Center (IDC) construction integrates construction, structure, electrical, HVAC, water supply and drainage, fire protection, network, intelligence and other professional technologies. Here, let's take a look at the steps involved in building a data center. Because of the complexity of building a data center, let's focus on the most important steps, including the physical infrastructure.

Properly planned data centers provide long-term and stable support for user services

A data center is a building site that provides a running environment for centralized electronic information devices. It can be one or several buildings or part of a building, including the main equipment room, auxiliary area, support area, and administrative management area.

Scientific and reasonable planning and design is an important step in the construction of data center, which needs to be considered from the site selection, regional division, material selection, server classification and security of data center. At the same time, the data center must be based on the actual analysis of the actual business volume and the amount of operational data, from the actual planning and design. The determination of data center grade is an important part of planning and design.

Data centers are classified into Class A, Class B and Class C. Class A is fault-tolerant, where accidents do not affect the normal operation of the electronic information system. Class B is redundant -- equipment failure does not affect the normal operation of the electronic information system; Class C is the basic type -- when the infrastructure is in normal operation, the electronic information system runs without interruption, and the time required for information storage before power failure is met. When planning and designing a data center, users can determine the level of data center construction based on the nature and importance of their services.

There are a lot of factors that need to be considered and analyzed before choosing a site

The location of the data center plays a very important role because it directly affects the cost of the user and the total cost of ownership (TCO). Site selection is one of the key decisions of data center construction, and the site selection of data center needs to consider multiple factors.

Many factors, such as location, power supply, communication and transportation, affect the location of data centers. All of these factors should be treated from a strategic perspective, as the focus of an industry may change every few years, and every few years, new technologies need to be converted or adopted.

It is also important to analyze the climate where the data center is located. This will help determine the most appropriate cooling measures, which include water cooling units, mechanical refrigeration air conditioning, natural air cooling, indirect air cooling, adiabatic cooling, etc., to achieve lower PUE goals for the data center.

Whether the infrastructure construction is perfect or not directly affects the operation of data center

In the construction of data center, the construction of infrastructure platform is a very important link. A stable and efficient infrastructure platform can not only guarantee the safe operation of data centers with high reliability, but also bring significant value in reducing energy consumption and late operation and maintenance.

In the deployment of infrastructure, the application of power supply, refrigeration, monitoring and other systems is the most critical construction content. In the selection of products, it is necessary to take into account a variety of factors on the basis of high reliability of products, so as to meet the needs of the target.

First, the product solution should be able to be deployed quickly to avoid putting too much effort into construction. Secondly, high energy saving is one of the important indicators to measure the product scheme. High energy saving products can greatly reduce the operation cost. In addition, the product solution should be flexible and extensible to meet the needs of business development. Also important is the intelligent management capabilities of the product solution, which can help the data center run more reliably and simplify daily operations.

It can be seen that, in terms of these factors, in the selection process of infrastructure products for data center construction, it is undoubtedly necessary to focus on the products of first-class brand manufacturers with comprehensive advantages in technology, products, research and development and services, so as to lay a solid foundation for the construction and operation of data centers.