How Kao Data used digital twin technology to build UK’s first free-cooled wholesale colo datacentre

Kao Data claims to have built the UK’s first wholesale colocation facility to rely on 100% free-air cooling, as part of a push to provide its clients with access to high-performance computing (HPC) environments that do not rely on mechanical refrigeration techniques to keep them cool.

The Harlow-based operator specialises in providing colocation capacity to hyperscale firms and life sciences-related organisations and is in the midst of a multi-year buildout of its datacentre campus.

This includes the creation of its KDL1 datacentre, where it has opted to deploy a free-air, indirect evaporative cooling (IEC) system – reportedly the first time such technology has been set live in a UK wholesale colocation facility.

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