Data center vet: 'Build for what you need. Don't overbuild anymore' Data center customers are better off adding modular units over retrofitting legacy centers, says industry veteran Tony Grayson, President and General Manager at Northstar Technologies Group, Inc.. Grayson is best known as the former President of Compass Datacenters Datacenters. "Why would you take a 4 to 6 kilowatt data center, and retrofit it for 40?" says Grayson. "Because guess what? By the time you're done retrofitting, they're going to be at a megawatt. You're better off just dropping stuff in your parking lot." Northstar provides small, modular data centers, often installed in close proximity to office buildings, such in parking lots. "Build for what you need. Don't over build anymore," Grayson tells Cool Vector. Grayson shares his insights in the Cool Vector episode, "The Modular Future of Data Centers is Coming to a Parking Lot Near You," also including veteran data center operators, Phillip Koblence and Nabeel Mahmood, both co-founders of non-profit Nomad Futurist, and Cool Vector host David Snow. Watch the full episode on the Cool Vector YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eY9hXwKx Follow Cool Vector on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eG_HDGCS #datacenter #digital #digitalinfrastructure #coolvector
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