DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

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DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

Short Code: Fortis
Year Built: 2016
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DV1, opened in 2016, stands as Scotland's premier, Uptime Institute-certified purpose-built co-location data centre, strategically located in the heart of the country.

The facility features high-density racks capable of supporting over 130kW per rack, equipped with advanced liquid cooling technologies

The Building:

  • Two loading bays and two 200kg lifts for equipment
  • Control room/bridge for each hall
  • Braced Sttel framed building
  • Warm roof construction, three layer ashphalt weatherproofing system on concrete slab

Data Hall Layout

  • Each hall 1000m2 net, PDUs within hall, CCU's in plant corridor
  • 800mm clear floor void (1200mm on upper floor)
  • 4000mm internal height, data hall floor to soffit
  • No internal shear walls, bracing or load bearing walls, allowing maximum future felxibility
  • 2 hour fire resistance to structural frame

Data Hall Floor loading:

  • Imposed loading 12kN/m2 over complete building footprint
  • Ceiling and services 2.4 kN/m2
  • Raised access floor 0.6kN/m2

Connectivity:

  • 4 sperate fibre entry points, with no point of convergence.
  • Redundant MMR/telco room.
  • Carrier Neutral

Networks:

  • AWS Direct Connect.
  • Microsoft Azure.
  • ExpressRoute.
  • Alibaba Cloud.
  • IBM Cloud Direct Link.
  • Oracle FastConnect.

Map and Nearby Locations:

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The Front Entrance of the Fortis Data Centre
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