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Ways to marry data centre design with the sustainability imperative
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At Corgan, for example, Bussey has worked on a data centre cluster of 30,000m² each. The trend is for multiple data halls, and this expansion has been driven further recently by the growth of AI use.
‘I don’t think [the idea of] timber framed data centres is that far off the mark,’ said Bussey, adding that one was already being built in the Nordics. He said Corgan had been approached to research opportunities to use timber in data centres – including for the superstructure; there was potential for timber HAC.