Data Centers: Planning, Siting, and Selecting

This course has been discontinued.

Data centers are the brain and nerve centers of today's high tech environment. Email, webpages, phone calls, banking records, online purchasing, and facilities controls are just a few of the myriad items that require efficient, accurate, and secure electronic transmission and storage. The crux of this entire system is the modern data center - millions of square feet of high power and cooling density systems that process quadrillions of signals. Data Centers can cost in excess of $1B to design and construct - and most systems rely on multiple data center locations. Properly siting and planning the data center, or data center network, is the first step in a multi-step process.