Data Center Feasibility & Layout Automation Tool

What the tool does

The parametric tool, developed using Grasshopper and Rhino Compute, automatically updates results as project assumptions change.

  • Site Assessment - Evaluates climate conditions, water availability, and environmental factors that influence data center performance and sustainability.
  • Infrastructure Planning - Configures rack densities, IT loads, cooling strategies, electrical architectures, and redundancy requirements.
  • Performance Analysis - Calculates key metrics including Cooling Feasibility Score (CFS), Cooling Readiness Score (CRS), PUE, WUE, CUE, and annual cooling energy.
  • Resilience & Cost Evaluation - Assesses redundancy strategies, fault tolerance, and infrastructure complexity through Resilience Score and CapEx Index outputs.
  • Facility Sizing & Visualization - Generates functional area breakdowns, data hall dimensions, height requirements, and conceptual facility layouts to support early-stage planning and feasibility studies.