If you are searching "how to build a small data center" or "small data center construction method" on google，there are so many answers to your questions. However, it's quite tough to build a safe and reliable data center at times if you are not an expert or electrical engineer of the data center.
The size of the data center is not the main consideration. A small data center is not a “bought together” piece-meal. Without electrical or mechanical experience, people can build an under-performance data center with high-cost.
Key elements to consider when building a small data center:
Electrical parts including Electrical layout and general descriptions, Backup power and generation such as generators, Switching and distribution, UPS systems (Uninterruptible Power Supplies).
Mechanical parts of a data center: cooling types and cooling unit configuration, network, fire-fighting system and environmental monitoring system.
70% of outages are due to human error per the last survey from the Uptime Institute. So how to build a safe small data center for your business or home with a limited budget?
2. How to Build Your Small Data Centers Safer, Faster and Better
To be able to build up a small data center faster, you need to have everything set up and ready to deploy racks immediately. If you find it hard to prepare, we invite you to check out the amazing prefabricated modular data center solutions in the market.
These data centers are an all-in-one plug-and-play data center for your small business. They significantly simplify data center design and construction and offer an alternative to the traditional data center.
Take Kstar Micro modular data center for an example：
The IDU Solution integrated PDU, UPS, Cooling and other key components in IT racks, saving space and can be shipped to everywhere you need. All the electrical parts and Mechanical parts are produced and pre-test in the factory, all you need is to provide power and connection.
It can be expanded easily by adding power module. Hot aisles and cold aisles are isolated to lower PUE to 1.3.It is launched to meet the IT room infrastructure optimization needs and mainly used in small- and medium-sized enterprises, microenterprises, large enterprises, governments and other branches in finance, education and energy industries.