Sustainable Data Center Design

Constructing a data center sustainably is about more than just the materials. PowerHouse is working to make new builds sustainable by design

Not every data center needs a ground-up solution. With an increasing number of companies needing large-scale data provision, a bespoke design isn’t always the right value proposition.

PowerHouse Data Centers offer the alternative – a fully built, provisioned, ready-to-go powered shell ready for you to move equipment into, secure in the knowledge that all the buildings, environs, power generation, and other facilities are of the same quality as if you’d designed them yourself.

As PowerHouse celebrates its accession to the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord, Data Center Dynamics takes time out with Luke Kipfer, PowerHouse’s vice president of Data Center Development and Construction, to explore how it creates facilities that meet the needs of the modern data center, and more importantly, meets the aggressive sustainability goals that being a member of iMasons brings. But first, Kipfer gives us an introduction to PowerHouse:

“PowerHouse is the technical real estate division of American Real Estate Partners (AREP). AREP, has been a real estate developer for over 20 years, doing over $5 billion in acquisitions, covering 20 million square feet – so they have a lot of experience as a real estate developer, originally, mainly in the corporate office space. In the past few years, AREP has made some acquisitions in Northern Virginia, around technology based real estate data center properties, so they decided to spin off PowerHouse Data Centers as our pure data center brand and a division in its own right.”

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