With the rise of digitalization, large data centres are constantly growing. Safe and well-designed physical facilities and data centres are required to provide cloud services and storage. Fire safety became one of the top concerns for data centres providers. What happens if a fire breaks out in one of the facilities covering hectares? 因此, a wide range of applied skills in fire engineering is required to develop a fire safety design for these data centres.
在本文中, we investigate how fire safety design can be applied in the development of large data centres to provide safe and secure facilities.
数据中心消防安全设计指引
数据中心是复杂的实体. The development of fire safety design is required in relatively tight and complex spaces where computer rooms should be constantly ventilated to prevent hardware overheating. 除了, the interior design of the data centres often includes a lowered ceiling or raised floor to accommodate the sprinklers and fire extinguishers.
The successful completion of a data centre involves considering specific building features, exceptional structural engineering solutions along with a wide range of expertise.
防火是设计的核心
从数据保存和安全的角度来看, 有效地控制潜在的火灾是很重要的. Although data centres have characteristics that differ significantly from other buildings, 消防安全的核心是严格的防火分区, 额定防火门, 并精心设置防火屏障.
It is important that both the design experts and the contractors involved in the construction work carefully implement and document the fire barriers and partitions. 由错误引起的问题可以传播到令人惊讶的广泛领域. 例如, if a passage is left unsealed and smoke damage is allowed to spread to other fire compartments, 火灾造成的损失将迅速增加. 在实践中, such a single event could affect the core business of the data centre’s customers in several countries.
访问控制和出口安全的重叠需求
The quality of the data stored in data centres is particularly driven by access control requirements. 通常在大型数据中心, the movement of people is restricted by area or zone which can affect the design and implementation of exit security.
因此, it is the role of the fire safety expert to create a solution that ensures at the same time the safe movement of people through exit routes and secure access control to the site with a safe data storage unit.
数据中心也必须考虑ATEX指令
以防停电, the service centres need to be able to secure their energy supply by storing significant amount of diesel used as back up fuel source. 因此, the fire safety design of data centres must typically also take into account the protective measures required for the storage of flammable liquids in accordance with the ATEX Directive.
救援部门在数据中心区域的运作
The largest data centres can cover from several tens to hundreds of hectares, creating a rather atypical environment for a rescue service compared to the usually built environment. The role of the fire safety expert is to address the operational requirements of the rescue service at the design stage, 所以访问路径, 灭火的水, 火灾探测板随时可用.
除了, the fire safety team will support the rescue service in any exercises during the commissioning phase of the new data centre in order to ensure that rescue operations in real-life situations are as smooth as possible.
Jensen Hughes在数据中心项目方面的专业知识
Jensen Hughes fire safety experts are involved in designing fire safety for data centres around the world. Each country has its own set of regulations that guide the practical implementation of solutions locally.
While there is a lot of data to store and secure on a global scale, 并非所有的数据中心在安全性方面都是一样的. 例如, the security requirements for storing personal and health data are different from those for storing photographs. A competent fire consultant can carry out the level of security required at the site and match the data centre’s fire security solutions to the right scale.
Jensen Hughes has been involved in several large data centre projects in 芬兰. We have experience with dozens of refurbished facilities in existing buildings as well as new buildings and new data centre sites. 芬兰's geographical location in the north creates energy-saving benefits due to the fact that the cooling of data rooms is cost-effective most of the year.
