Boss: I found the most famous feng shui gentleman in the city and showed me a piece of land, and everyone came up with ideas to see how they were chosen!
Me: In the speed of light, the various risk factors are filtered ...... one by one
For a data center with huge investment and high reliability requirements, site selection is undoubtedly extremely important, and in the face of natural disasters that "treat everything like a dog", staying away from risks is often the best choice, such as China's data center specifications, which are in 61.Article 9 clearly requires that the completion surface of the first floor of the new A-level data center should be higher than the water mark of the 100-year return period of the local flood0 meters above and should be higher than the outdoor floor 06 meters or more.
There have been many cases of data centers being wiped out due to natural causes around the world. The picture below shows the case of Zhuozhou being flooded in 2023, and it is clear that there is nowhere to be found, probably because it was flooded like this, and the high and low voltage distribution room, master control room, and air-conditioning room arranged on the first floor can only be scrapped and rebuilt
Requirements for T3 and T4 data center siting in the United States TIA standards and Chinese data center specifications:
Technical requirements for site selection in Appendix A of China's data center specifications:
In addition to the projects listed in **, in actual operation, you can also add the actual existence of high-risk factors at the project site, such as mining, over-exploitation of groundwater to form a mined-out subsidence area, chemical pollution, quicksand, collapsible loess, urban construction caused by the change of surface water flow direction, etc., the more carefully considered, the safer the project!