Do we really want to walk away from all that learning, and start moving as much of the construction process as possible into distant sheds?.

As data centres draw ever larger amounts of power, sustainability becomes central.Lincoln describes Edged’s parent organisation, Endeavour, as taking a holistic view of energy usage and carbon reduction.

He explains the vision behind it:.‘We have a company that oversees us… called Endeavour… really trying to solve global climate challenges that we’re facing right now with regards to the access to energy to meet the demands of these colo tenants while not continuing to hurt our planet.’.Edged aims to integrate on-site power generation - through microgrids, energy storage, or innovative cooling technology - to reduce reliance on conventional utilities.

This approach supports resiliency and could allow facilities to feed surplus energy back into public networks.Though the transition to greener power is complicated, incremental steps such as more efficient cooling and reduced water usage can significantly lighten the environmental burden over time.. Urban vs. remote sites: A changing landscape.

While data centres have traditionally been located on large, out-of-town sites, newer developments often need to be closer to urban areas.

Latency requirements, local regulation, and land constraints mean that ‘cookie-cutter’ single-storey facilities are no longer the only game in town.We then determine with our client – and key stakeholders – what the high level aspects are of a solution that would solve this problem.

That might sound a bit trivial, but the point is that the solution is almost never a building by itself.A building is a system that, together with other systems, realises the value that matters to client and stakeholders..

In the case of the prison transformation project we worked on, this meant that there were two key components to the solution: the people that work in the prison and the building that allows them to do what they need to do in order to help prisoners in their rehabilitation journey.In the case of a pharmaceutical plant it is the different value-adding steps of the overall process and the interface with people who operate that process and the utilities required for that process..