Today is a historic day! Our datacenter has officially soft opened today and our first customer is actually moving in today!

Here are some of the highlight in bullet points for easy reading

1. The fire marshall has approved the occupancy of our new datacenter. We still cannot officially fill up the entire space today due to the incomplete mechanical project. However the marshall has been kind enough to let us be operational with a few cabinets.

2. The building inspector has also officially approved occupancy of our new datacenter on 7/23/2010.

3. Our network was officially up and running yesterday 7/23/2010. Thanks to jim and his 3 hour sleep per day working round the clock in order to ensure fiber connectivities between our Westin Building Network infrastructure and our new datacenter network infrastructure.

4. The new crac units has been delivered! Unfortunately we had to ship one back to Emerson because it was damaged during the shipment. We are looking forward to complete our mechanical project by mid August.

5. Generator WILL Be installed by next week

6. We are currently running the datacenter using temporary cooling.

7. We will be moving some of our Wowrack Corporate Servers into our new datacenter as well next week!.

Stay tuned for more photos next week.

Just in time!

Our electrical project is wrapping up soon and we are looking forward to proceed with the mechanical project as soon as possible.

We will also be talking to Seattle City Light Rep next week to discuss our datacenter power efficiencies plan

There are lots of updates again since the last time we’ve made the blogpost. The electrical project has been making a very good progress and we are still in the process of completing our conduit and power cable run into the facility. We have made a last minute change in our electrical design and have decided to put in an extra kirk key interlock system that would allow us to have N+N redundancies in our generator design. This has pushed the electrical project a few weeks back for the provisioning and delivery of the kirk key system. Other than that, there has been a very good progress in the electricals. Conduit runs has been put in place, we now have lights! , power cable are being run inside the conduits, fiber conduits have been completed, ATS, Circuit breaker panels, UPS installation are ongoing, fire supression system installation is almost completed, and we even managed to bolt down a few cabinets!

enjoy the photos!

Electrical Conduits have been installed all over the datacenter floors

PDU installation is ongoing. Conduit has been fed from this PDU to different parts of the datacenter

Can’t wait to juice these circuits up!

Circuit breakers on top of cabinet has been installed and awaiting cable to be fed

Views of conduit being distributed from our PDU

Another Views of conduit being distributed from our PDU

UPS wiring

Automatic Transfer Switch power monitor clip.

One of our main electrical panel

Maintenance By Pass Unit

Huge Copper Electrical Wires!

Networking Rack has been setup and bolted to the ground. We are expecting to setup our Meet Me Room (MMR) and our Cisco gears in here.

Fire Supressant System

New Sprinkler installed.

One of the Hot Aisle

We now have light, yay!

Some cabinets have been bolted down to the ground

:’( Someone vandalize our van parked outside of our datacenter :’(

There have definitely been tons of updates since we’ve last posted on this blog Sorry for the late posts, but the good news is that we’re still on track in our datacenter project. As you all know from previous blogs, the construction part of the datacenter buildout project has been completed and we are now working on the electrical infrastructure buildouts, installing new fire suppressant system, and start working on the mechanical buildouts.

Please read the comments below the photos that was taken today in order to find out what has been going on

The First Batch of the APC Cabinet order have arrived. We are just currently staging them in the datacenter floor and we will be installing them once we are almost thru with the electrical buildouts.

The efficient powerware UPS has also arrived and has been assembled together with the battery cabinet. We can’t wait to juice this baby up on the later part of the electrical project.

Guess the most important part of the electrical buildout is this transfer switch. This will be the primary power entrance into our facility and electricians are actively working on installation of this ATS as we speak.

Conduits that will juice up the Automatic Transfer Switch

Conduit entrance to the Automatic Transfer Switch waiting for precious copper!

Some 600amps breakers fed from the Transfer Switch.

Yeah, its still damn busy in here!

The new dry-pipe fire supressant installation has been completed. All pipes run has been completed and sprinkler head has also been deployed all over the datacenter. We are waiting for the VESDA system to be installed next.

New sprinkler pipe installation

The main electrical switch gear has been fenced up for security. We have some extra space for future switch gear as well in the future.

 
Power conduits has been cored into the wall of the building.

We have finally completed the VCT tile installation! (pic below). The first batch of APC black cabinets has been ordered and we are looking for them to come in sometime next week. The electrical switch gears have also arrived (pic below) and awaiting installation soon (fingers crossed)

We are very happy with the professionalism and great help from the Sabey construction team so far. Kudos to the great team!

Installation of the VCT tiles is now completed. The datacenter space construction project is now almost completed!

Conduit Holes has been drilled.

Large electrical switch gears and conduits have arrived! Can’t wait to get these installed!

Some more photo shots of the electrical switchgears.

Some more photo shots of the electrical switchgears.

yes! this is even more exciting news Our electrical switch gears, ATS have arrived today.

We have also started to perform core drilling project in our datacenter facility that will run electrical and fiber conduits. We promise to post more pics soon this week!

We have seen a very good progress over the past couple weeks. The drywall is now 95% complete and has been painted white, construction is moving along without much trouble and insulation foam installation on top of our datacenter has also been completed. VCT installation has been confirmed for next week and upon the completion of that, we are very close to wrapping up the construction phase of our datacenter and will be ready to move into the next phase which is mechanical and electrical phase. We are currently still debating whether to fill our datacenter up with APC or Rittal cabinets, but we have all agreed that we will settle with a black cabinet We hope to order these cabinets in about a week or so.

I would like to point out the insulation on the ceiling of our datacenter. If you notice, it is colored white and is designed to reflect heat. Another reason for us to insulate our ceiling is to prevent the hot air from heating up our ceiling, hence affecting our top floor neighbor cooling. By having this insulation in place, we are really working towards saving energy for our neighbor Yes we’d like to be a good neighbor and prevent power from being unecessary utilized within our building. Another step closer to our green datacenter initiave!

Dry Wall has been completed, mudded and painted.

Another shot of our datacenter drywall. As you can see paint is barely drying as it was literraly applied an hour prior to this picture being taken.

The old sprinkler system will be replaced and this photo also shows that we have drywalled the rest of the building’s old infrastructure.

This is the beautifully done ceiling insulation with foam. This foam is put in place to prevent hot air from heating up our top floor neighbor.

Another shot of the ceiling insulation.

Our mechanical team has completed the measurement of HVAC and ducting placement.

Our 1200amps @480V distribution switch installation has been completed. This will be the backbone to our datacenter power.

Installation completed on 4/25/2010!

Monster electrical switch, brand spanking new

We have made quite a progress by this time. We have finalized all of our partners and vendors, electrical gears including UPS, ATS, PDU have been ordered. Mechanical ducting has also been sized and proposed… More detailed updates as we finalize our final design soon! Meanwhile here are some of the photos of the recent progress ….

This was the document that halted our project for almost 2 weeks Glad to finally get it stamped by the city!

Our Datacenter Mechanical Design paperworks.

The view from our balcony. As you can see our building is way above the city street, way above Seattle lightrail track, and way above the buildings in the lower part of the city. If you notice to the left behind the trees, it is the Seattle sound transit bus parking facility. Yes, we are certain that flooding is not a concern

Walled-off T-junction for building water pipes

Completed skeleton awaiting drywalls.

Electrical Switch Gear is in place on top of the concrete pads. This should be juiced up by end of this month!