Colombia. The data center market in Latin America has a new player, it is the new ZETTA Data Center Complex of the ZFB Group. This complex is projected, according to the group, as the most important and largest data center in that country, with 4,560 m2 of white area, which is advanced in the Free Trade Zone of Bogotá and will begin operations next year.
"Colombia is positioning itself as an important benchmark for data centers in the region. That is why we designed a world-class complex: ZETTA Data Center Complex, is a product of several years of work of the ZFB Group for the development of the sector. The project consists of four phases that in total total 4,560 m2 of white area and the objective is to become one of the most important data centers in the country, "says Juan Pablo Rivera, President of Grupo ZFB.
The complex is designed for companies looking for the most reliable, efficient, secure and ready to grow infrastructure. In addition, it offers differential competitive advantages that respond to the needs of the Colombian and regional market in terms of security, availability and costs derived from investment and operation.
Developer of Free Zones by the hand of specialized manufacturers
This project is prepared to offer four main axes with its suppliers: energy, cooling, modularity and safety. "The best partners have been chosen to maximize the different objectives of each of the proposed innovation axes," said Diego Mauricio Gaitán, General Manager of The Free Zone Developer.
ZETTA Data Center Complex houses the most reliable power generation system in a data center, supplied by Cummins de los Andes, with Power Generation plants. This system has fuel autonomy for 24 hours of continuous operation and two independent routes for fuel supply; that is, it is capable of continuously delivering a constant or variable electrical load for unlimited hours in a data center application, bringing the operation to its maximum power.
"The generation system is considered the main power source for the data center, the public grid is an economical alternative. For this reason, power outages are not considered a failure, but rather an expected operating condition for which any data center must be prepared," says Álvaro Andrés López, Commercial Director of CPG at Cummins de los Andes.
On the other hand, to guarantee continuity and efficiency, the energy solution selected by ZETTA, according to Hugo Pachón, director of business continuity - UP SISTEMAS, is "the TRI-BUS configuration that has three independent energy buses, each of them feeding different loads. This topology seeks to reduce infrastructure oversizing and increase technical and investment efficiency."
On the other hand, the critical cooling of the load that will be stored by the ZETTA Data Center will be led by Vertiv, through the use of dry cooler technologies with free cooling operation mode, for the cooling of white areas directly. This allows to take advantage of the location of the Data Center in Bogotá, achieving high levels of efficiency in energy consumption.
Vertiv's cooling system offers "high availability, efficient cooling that maximizes resources, HVAC that adapts quickly to change, and scalability. Thus, as the number of users increases, the system will continue to operate correctly," says José Joaquín Castillo, Application Engineer at Vertiv.
In effect, "a data center is being built with the main brands in the market, recognized worldwide to maintain the availability and efficiency of the data center over time," added the General Manager of The Free Zone Developer. In this way, the optimal conditions of connectivity, energy efficiency, cooling and availability, make the ZETTA Data Center Complex the best alternative for multinationals, regional and local.
