2014 Best Intermountain Manufacturing and Award of Merit Safety: eBay Data Center
EBay's new 85,000-sq-ft Salt Lake City "data center of the future" deploys Dell's EPIC module, which packs more than 1 MW of IT power capacity into 24 racks, and HP's EcoPod module, adding 1.4 MW of capacity in 44 gear racks. The project included 15,000 sq ft of white-space build-out, a spine building and sitework to support two modular data containers, 6 MW of initial Bloom Energy fuel cells, a generator, uninterruptible power and high-efficiency cooling systems as well as infrastructure for future expansion to 18 MW.
In mid-summer the project changed from more of a traditional system infrastructure to incorporating 6 MW of fuel cells and replacing generators, UPS systems and large amounts of switchgear. This concentrated many duct banks and feeders in a confined location. The design change caused most of the underground work to occur in the middle of one of the coldest winters in Utah history—without jeopardizing schedule or quality.