Build-To-Suit Datacenters

Building Your Custom Data Center

Building a custom data center is a complex undertaking for anyone. At Digital Realty Trust, we can take that burden off of you. Building data centers is what we do, and our experienced engineering, data center design and construction teams have built literally hundreds of them all over the world. This extensive base of knowledge enables us to propagate the best practices in data center solutions that we have developed to work across industries and continents. Drawing upon this unmatched depth and breadth of experience, our professionals will work with you from start to finish to ensure that your facility meets your most exacting specifications. Our proprietary Digital Realty Trust Gating Process^sm is used on all projects to ensure transparency and inputs at the right stages of the project — all the way from scope and schematic through commissioning and turnover. From a customer standpoint, the Gating Process^sm enables us to construct your data center within budget and in months — not years.

Data Center Design

Having designed and built over 200 data centers worldwide, Digital Realty Trust understands the unique requirements of our customers. We think like a customer. We combine this experience with our purchasing power and unique industry relationships to design and build data centers in conjunction with our customers that factor in important considerations such as:

• Data center design
• Data center construction
• Data center operations
• Business risk
• Financial considerations

Our Gating Process^sm takes the mystery out of data center design and construction. We rigorously identify requirements, weigh them against business risk and costs, and deliver. All the while, our open-book approach creates a collaborative environment and ensures that our customers get the right control over their critical data center project.

Data Center Construction and Construction Costs

As a Digital Realty Trust Build-to-Suit customer you also benefit from our philosophy of value engineering throughout the data center design and development process. Should you wish, our professionals will work with you to determine the optimal design for your chosen location and the equipment required to support it. You will also benefit from our volume purchasing power. By purchasing large numbers of key data center components, such as switchgear and UPS systems, we are able to pass our savings on components along to you in the form of lower data center construction costs. This purchasing power also helps ensure that your site is delivered on schedule because we are able to work with manufacturers to adjust production schedules so that key components are delivered when you need them.

Data Center Solutions Video

Please click the play button below to watch our data center video on our Build-to-Suit Datacenter solution.