Sustainable, Resilient, and Secure Data Center Solutions
By leveraging over 100 years of expertise in renewables, energy storage, water, and communications systems, Black & Veatch provides comprehensive data centers solutions that serve our clients throughout the entire infrastructure lifecycle. Our solutions are delivered with precision and customized to your unique needs for the following multi-site programs and individual project types:
Large, multi-site, phased data center campuses (across multiple geographic locations as needed)
Standalone, individual data centers
Additions, repairs, and other modifications to existing data centers
Greenfield site data center development (in rural/remote areas or constrained urban sites)
Associated infrastructure (including power, water, and communications)
Comprehensive Support Throughout Entire Infrastructure Lifecycle
Black & Veatch provides end-to-end data center solutions though site selection, permitting, design, procurement, construction, utility interconnections, commissioning, operations and maintenance. To protect our data center clients’ mission critical operations, our integrated approach includes the following:
Planning: Existing conditions and structures evaluations, land survey and title reviews, topographic and boundary surveys, geotechnical reviews, site grading and flood risk reviews, environmental assessments, security evaluations
Engineering and Design: Stakeholder engagement, BOD development, conceptual design, site planning and layout, constructability studies, power system studies, massing plans, LEED/sustainability certifications
Procurement: Global sourcing of equipment and materials, RFQ/RFP development, vendor prequalification and selection
Construction: Experience working in live environments, flexible delivery options, self-perform capabilities, safety management, subcontractor management, construction administration
Power: Renewable energy, conventional backup power, microgrid integration
Water: Cooling systems, water reuse strategies
Communications: Rack design, building automation/management systems, private fiber networks
Commissioning and Startup: System and equipment commissioning, facility startup and turnover, operations and maintenance support
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Black & Veatch was contracted by a major confidential technology client to complete the engineering, procurement and construction of modifications to the blend tank in Washington. The city is home to over 60 megawatts of server farms for major data center companies. The city is working with one of these companies to develop an industrial wastewater treatment plant (IRWTP). The IRWTP will ultimately treat the city’s existing IRWTP’s secondary effluent stream to eliminate discharge outfall to the...
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A global investment firm was considering purchasing four data centers and wanted refined intel on the prospective purchases to ensure a good return on their investment. Black & Veatch was retained by the firm to gather and review technical information for these potential properties based on the client’s criteria due to Black & Veatch’s significant experience and ability to add value in the data center space.
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Black & Veatch was contracted to perform both planning and site-specific detailed design for a hyperscale data center. Black & Veatch developed the site-specific permitting approach and supported the permitting process through discussion with the local regulators, working with local legal counsel, and developing and issuing both environmental and construction permits.
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