Data Center Tour & Technical Deep Dive into the Power, Data and Cooling Infrastructure!

My good friends at Deft gave me a guided tour of one of their datacenters where I learned about the power, cooling, and backup systems in place. I even got a technical deep dive into how the centrifugal (flywheel) UPS works along with many other details that keep operations running smoothly.

This isn’t sponsored content; it’s just us having fun and geeking out over the amazing systems in place. Join us and let us know if there are other datacenters or other types of facilities you’d like to see in the comments!

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Chapters
00:00 Welcome to the Data Center: An Insider's Tour
01:27 Flywheel Centrifugal UPS
02:53 Inside The Diesel Generator Room
08:13 Climate Control: Pump Room, Cooling Systems & Evaporator Towers
11:00 Fiber Optics and Data Connectivity and Redundancies
16:48 Air Handlers and Raised Floor Cooling in the Server Room
19:18 Server Room Power Distribution Insights
21:43 How Deft Secures Colo Cabinets
22:44 Maintaining Servers in the Parts and Service Room

[thecasualfly]

The person giving the tour is super passionate and proud of their work and you can tell by their excitement explaining their data center.. great video!

[maxherman]

I cannot say how much I LOVE these types of videos Tom! Please try to do more Data Center videos in the future! I love seeing all the massive industrial scale networking, cooling, etc that takes place!

[eointhomas]

Great to see someone so passionate about their work, well done to both of you

[falcorn_]

Yeah This facility is pretty Sick. Something i didnt see mentioned is that this Site has a 200, 000 Gallon Fuel tank located underneath the parking lot. Which allows the Entire Building to run on Gas power for 55 hours with our fuel suppliers being under an 8 hour SLA for fuel delivery. Source: I work at that DC.

[RuDaniel]

Big props to the person giving the tour. He clearly knows his stuff and loves it. Thank you for sharing this tour with all of us.

[Zetharion]

I've seen a couple of other datacenter "tours, " but the info in this one was WAY better than all the others combined. Very well done!

[curranhouse]

Wow this guy really knows his stuff, clearly a well run company! Excellent explaination of everything. Thanks for doing this video!!!

[josephheald]

I currently work for SPX (Marley) building those cooling towers. It's nice to see them in action! Data centers are some of our most important customers, and this particular DC has a great deployment of the technology.

[Moonraker]

As someone who has managed a very small data center, this was enormously satisfying to watch and geek out on!

[frankmomma]

Your guide was an absolute Data Center expert! You could see his knowledge & passion for what he does. It was great to see someone so happy to provide the tour & let the world see how complex & magnificent these type of facilities are. As well as the people working at them!

[itlackie]

I love these kind of data center videos. I've only been to a datacenter twice for work. It's like the IT's version of being a kid at a candy store.

[PupShepardRubberized]

That was cool. That PDU at the end was nuts. I didn't know such a thing existed.

[kceks]

Very cool and rare in depth look. Loves this thanks Tom and all who made it happen

[SemajMusiq]

I appreciate the fact that he emphasized that all of these racks & wires that look like a maze are the product of 15 years of work! Amazing how the world has evolved. Who would've thought that numbers, wires, & radio frequencies would be the reason we're all able to watch this video! Great video guys! Thank you!

[kwith]

Worked in a data center for 10 years. Seeing this brings back so many memories. Also, #TeamVelcro!

[Jedwardoh]

Dude thank you for this video! So much valuable information for someone learning critical power generation.

[nellermann]

deft is awesome, we have space with them in the hall they were walking in this tour. they have several data halls at this site.

[qwery]

I'm in an entirely different industry but I couldn't stop watching. Fascinating. Thank you for letting us take a glimpse into your world. ❤

[sirgibsonable]

A fantastic tour with ??? (did you ever introduce your guide? I loved his enthusiasm and was impressed with the depth of his knowledge) from Deft.

I am CTO of a startup looking at alternatives to "traditional" cloud environments. I'll be giving Deft a call about our co-lo needs thanks to this video. Thanks so much, Tom!

[leo-ken]

Thanks Tom for bringing this live video to us. Looking forward to more videos like this.