P R O J E C T F O C U S

ITALY

Aruba S . p . A recently announced the implementation of liquid cooling within the data centre campus in Ponte San Pietro ( BG ), near Milan . Liquid cooling enables the support of increasingly dense racks in data centres and meets the needs of new generations of processors .

Thanks to the design that distinguishes Aruba ’ s data centres , the liquid cooling solution was integrated into an environment already in production without needing to dedicate a separate space or portion of the facilities to liquid cooling . This greatly reduced implementation time since all data rooms had already been prepared for applications involving liquid-based heat exchange .

NORTH AMERICA ( VIRGINIA )

DataBank , a leading provider of enterprise-class Edge colocation , interconnection and managed services , has announced the construction of its third data centre on Red Rum Drive in Ashburn VA . It ’ s immediately adjacent to its existing 13-acre campus in Ashburn , VA , bringing critical new space and power inventory to one of the busiest data centre markets in the world .

The new facility ( IAD4 ) and surrounding five acres of land are being developed in collaboration with GI Partners , and will join the two existing facilities ( IAD1 , IAD3 ) already in operation on the existing 13- acre campus . IAD4 will provide an additional 20MW of power – a bonus in a constrained market – and 70,000 raised square feet of space , increasing the total capacity of the campus to 18 acres , 70MW of power and 375,000 square feet of data centre space .

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