Data Centre Advisory
Working With You
Elcern Consulting aims to provide in-depth insights on the dynamic data centre sector.
We can help your designers, planners, constructors, operators and funders deeply assess target markets, and innovate design and construction.
Then its all about improving operations through new technology, optimised power and cooling and supporting environmental commitments.
Understanding data centre markets
We develop understanding of market drivers like AI, Cloud and Digital Transformation. We identify market geographies in terms of cities and regions calling for data centre development. From national, regional, city to business campus markets, we can support clients considering new data centre strategies.
We develop knowledge of customers and their data hosting needs within data centre catchment areas.
Be it edge retail, wholesale, colocation or enterprise we have a view.
From data centre planning
Our examination of data centre planning documentation provides significant insights and benchmarks in activity area that can be fraught with delays impacting owners, funders, developers and constructors.
Throughout the data centre life cycle
Elcern delivers client advisory work through our standardised life cycle framework, the Elcern Datacentre Lifecycle Model (EDLM).
Our EDLM enables us to provide advice to clients on data centre project structure, governance, performance, risks and templates for all the key stages of a facility’s lifecycle.
Deploying data lakes
Elcern tracks data centre developments from many of the major developers, funders, owners, builders, suppliers and operators. This is compiled into our proprietary Elcern Data Lake (EDL).
And, with UK data centres now classified as nationally critical digital infrastructure, we further feed the EDL to maintain views on key risks such as electricity supply, land availability, skills gaps as well as resilience and security.
Using our EDL, we can support clients with benchmarks and market insights. We also use our EDL to create Data Centre Insights, and Data Centre Briefs to help our social media followers stay up to date on the industry’s most important news.
Deploying technology
We are restless in taking the pulse of data centre technologies in chips, servers, power supply, cooling and waste heat.
Supporting your key decisions
Whether for decisions on data centre location, customer options, local government interactions, local financing availability, energy integrations or sustainability approaches, we can develop a breadth of views to best support the needs of our clients.
Below: EDLM Workflow and EDL Extract
Note: Elcern does not create end to end Datacentre designs.
Data Centre Advisory Insights
Data Centre Events
Timeline
A list of some events that may be of interest to the UK data centre community. We periodically update this list, along with other sector and topic timelines, so do let us know any additions or errors...
UK Data Centres go into
"Hyper-Speed"
Within the first few weeks of the new UK government, we’ve seen signs of potentially massive progress for the data centre sector...
Tuning Up Your
Data Centre
Many data centre organisations have an opportunity to implement sustainability measures in quite a cohesive way in order to optimise...
Streamlining UK Planning
The following insights, evidence and recommendations were submitted to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to support their review of the consenting process for national infrastructure.