Professional Step-By-Step Guidance
From concept through design to “plug and play” engineering, to ensure that your data center is designed to flexibly keep pace with your company’s growth and provide the ability to upgrade to future technologies at lower cost and with as little disruption to operations as possible.

Save Money
By including design, engineering and project management within the integrated construction and delivery of the data center we will save you money.  Our approach eliminates the high cost of using third-party consultants and “experts” because Great Plains Data Center Builders have this expertise at the core of its competency; we are data center specialists, building data centers are our primary focus.  This lower “overhead” allows Great Plains to build top quality centers significantly below the global pricing “standards” within the data center industry and at unprecedented speed to delivery.


Proven Experience
The Great Plains Data Center Builders team has recently built a Tier III, force 5-certified tornado-resistant data center in east central Nebraska.  We encourage clients to build their data centers in this region due to gain the following advantages:

• Availability of affordable power and high data capacity.
• Lower labor and operational cost for business operations.
• Lower cost of construction than in major urban areas due to labor and materials costs.
• Strong, in-place performance relationships with construction operators, engineers, architects and equipment supply vendors and manufacturers.
• Lower cost of land and site accessibility.
• Financial and tax incentive potential from local and state governments.
• Lower vulnerability to natural and man-made disasters.

Data Center Space Challenges
Acquiring data center space in 2008 has become a complex and difficult problem.  The need continues to grow at a rate nearing 14% while availability is growing at less than 4%. There are two critical trends, which cause those seeking data center space to start off on the wrong foot:

• A general lack of understanding of the most recent technologies, which permit far more efficient use of available space and far better management of energy and human resources.  In many cases executive or facilities managers or organizations mount the search campaigns to find data center space, without consulting internal and external data center experts on the newest information and infrastructure-support technologies.  This results in decisions that do not focus on the central and critical elements of building a data center.
• Trying to find space based on real estate criteria.

Data Center space requirements have changed drastically in recent years. Dense computing, smaller, faster disk components and shrinking mainframe footprints, means reduced overall floor space and dimensional requirements. Collective industry experience indicates that any space requirement estimates, based on data over four years old will not be accurate. Moore’s Law strongly indicates that technology will continue its rapid evolution making the need for a Data Center that is flexible and scalable even more important in future planning than in the past.


Energy Savings
Great Plains Data Center Builders employs energy reduction and management solutions that address cooling and power distribution that substantially and favorably impact new data center space preparation, solutions that do not generally exist in data centers more than three to four years old.  Energy consumption per square foot has increased with dense computing but the ability to reduce overall electric and cooling costs has improved significantly. Virtualization and in-row/in-rack cooling, combined with more energy-efficient components, have led to the overall reduction in utility costs for new strategically designed Data Centers, as compared to existing Data Center technologies and configurations. One example is a $7M savings in energy cost over a ten-year period in a Data Center operating five thousand servers, using up-to-date and far more efficient cooling technologies.


Government Regulations
Government mandates in the areas of green computing are on the horizon, which will force organizations to find better ways to efficiently control power and cooling in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Planning for new data center space must address this factor. In alignment with these trends, Great Plains Data Center Builders has recently built a data center that meets LEED certification standards for a “green” center.


Build v. Upgrade/Retrofit
It is more cost-effective, offers greater flexibility, and is simpler and sometimes faster to build data center space to the new technological advantages than it is to retrofit an existing facility.  Data center specialist at Great Plains are available to discuss the technological advantages that we employ and would be delighted to talk with you about our passion – building the best, most technologically advanced and efficient data centers in the world.