Data Center Tour & Technical Deep Dive into the Power, Data and Cooling Infrastructure!

Life in the cloud…

woah, data centers are clearly massive energy guzzlers.

Wow, absolutely excellent tour. I wish I could be a customer of that data center, but I'm just a lowly janitor in a hospital who happens to enjoy home computing.

Nice that a smaller DC is able to approve this type of recording. It’s be nice to see this from one of the hyperscalers or large colo players, but I have a feeling their legal will kill it.

The STS comment was off, or at least I haven’t seen that design. I haven’t seen anyone ask for a mechanical STS, they’re dinosaurs. Normally you have main-gen breaker-breaker transfer scheme. Normally that’s done open transfer and the UPS carries the load during outage/transfer. STS’ are usually downstream of the UPS and allow selection of two good sources from different power blocks before the PDU.

Newer buildings from Compass, Vantage, Switch, Equinix, DLR would all be a good comparison to this older facility.

Thanks for sharing.

cool tour! I worked at an OVH datacenter for many years and it's really crazy how different certain solutions are

A fantastic tour with ??? (did you ever introduce your guide? I loved his enthusiasm and was impressed with the depth of his knowledge) from Deft.

I am CTO of a startup looking at alternatives to "traditional" cloud environments. I'll be giving Deft a call about our co-lo needs thanks to this video. Thanks so much, Tom!

chilled water, or they even have hot tubs with no electrolytic liquid you can dunk server blades in hot tubs

I dont think all that cooling and power technology is ever needed in datacenters. I think its like the equivalent of nerds putting water-cooling jnside their PCs but on a larger scale

It's amazing how much of the infrastructure is just around power delivery and cooling. Like it almost as if the people who manage that side of it could be powering and cooling anything. I kinda imagine they'd be happy even if it was just a warehouse full of incandescent lamps that really need be on 24/7.

When I think data center my mind immediately goes to complexities of computer hardware and software. But really at a high level it like the data center is just about making sure you have enough power and cooling and that the cable bill is paid.

Love working here.

Dude. Cool. Shalom.

That would be an alternator?

No way this much infrastructure required to store my BS comments

This was awesome!! Thank you

I really enjoyed the tour. Thank you deft for the tour.

That was so fucking cool. Thanks!

no longer do you need 2 stands for communications

That was super interesting. Seeing geeks geek out about cool tech is always fun to watch.

Absolutely incredible
Fascinating VIP tour
Thank you

Amazing!

great video

The data center I have my servers at have actual submarine diesel motors as electric generators. Thank you for sharing.

Great video and the guide was awesome!

deft is awesome, we have space with them in the hall they were walking in this tour. they have several data halls at this site.

Brilliant! Do you have anymore content on this tour? Would love to see it!

Now THAT is a DC!! They've got everything you need.

رائع جدًا ونادر في العمق. أحب هذا بشكل غير معقول توم وجميع الذين جعلوا ذلك يحدث
أقول غير شريفة بتحد

Believed me guys, I work in one's biggest Data Centre of a country I can't say witch. IS NOT FUN!

It's a shame I had to delete my whole thread on here because I was being harassed over "liking" Ubiquiti products for the data center. Ubiquiti makes a CloudKey Enterprise that supports 10,000 clients and I get heat for their stuff only being for "home use." I'm guessing it was the people in said data center that is reviewed in the video. This has got to stop. I do not work for Ubiquiti, but use their products in the data center. I have 20+ years of networking experience. I'm sorry that you think they should be used for other purposes.

Cool datacenter tour. I would love to work in a datacenter eventually. I just graduated with a 2 year degree in computer network administration. Working on a CompTIA A+ certification.

Thanks for the CRAZY DETAILED tour....

i especially like the Network rack tour....
nice that the guide take the time to explain GOOD WIRING ORGANIZATION PRACTICE.....

This is so insane I love this. I want this at home, nevermind the noise :D

I have an old 80kw 3 phase generac that was retired from a datacenter with 500 hours on it. 350 V8 chevy that runs off propane. It runs my whole farm and probably a few others. Too good a deal to pass up and long as the water heater is running it will start and spin up within 30 seconds but I give it 90 before 2 400 amp transfer switches kick in. Bout to find one for my office.

Soooo freakin cool! As a software guy, this isn’t something I normally get to see. But I sure appreciate the care that goes into it.

Ty. That was amazing. Learned a lot and got to geek out on loads of different hardware.

I'd relocate to a different continent to work there

I am a cost engineer and pricing communication facilities is not cheap. From dirt to fully functional buildings. Also, these buildings get more expensive as engineering build redundant systems.

ear plugs!

If you want real redundancy in diesel generators it needs to be two stroke.

Out of this world 🌎👍❤ !
So good.
Thank you 100x !

sicknesssss

Boy, have data centers become more complex since the last time I worked inside one. I love the neat toys you have these days.

I've seen a couple of other datacenter "tours," but the info in this one was WAY better than all the others combined. Very well done!

Thank you! Absolutely Excellent Video!

with all the talk about efficiency for the cooling, and using a TES, i'm surprised by the lack of hot/cold aisle containment in the rooms.

A big thanks to you and Deft for this great video.

More of this!!!!!!!