Resource Category

Technical Guides

Deep-dive technical guidance for electrical, cooling, life safety, and controls system design. Written for engineering teams evaluating architecture options and defining procurement requirements.

Electrical Distribution Planning Guide

From medium-voltage intake through rack-level PDU strategy. Covers topology selection, protection coordination, generator sizing, UPS architecture, and transfer switch logic for Tier II through Tier IV designs.

ElectricalMV/LVProtection
15 min readRead Guide

Thermal Strategy and Cooling Systems Guide

Compare air-cooled, liquid-cooled, and hybrid thermal strategies. Includes PUE estimation, WUE considerations, climate zone adjustments, and plant-to-load thermal pathway mapping.

CoolingPUEThermal
14 min readRead Guide

Life Safety and Fire Protection Planning Guide

Detection technology selection, suppression evaluation, alarm integration, zoning boundaries, and emergency response design aligned with NFPA 75, NFPA 76, and local AHJ requirements.

Life SafetyNFPASuppression
13 min readRead Guide

Controls, Monitoring, and Operational Telemetry Guide

Sensor planning, alarm hierarchy design, BMS/DCIM integration patterns, and operational telemetry architecture covering environmental, power, leak, and access control systems.

ControlsBMSTelemetry
12 min readRead Guide

AI/ML Infrastructure Planning Guide

High-density GPU deployment considerations including direct liquid cooling, dedicated power distribution topology, structural load planning, and network fabric design for training clusters.

AI/MLGPUHigh Density
16 min readRead Guide

Edge Deployment Planning Guide

Site selection, remote operations, environmental resilience, and self-contained infrastructure design for distributed edge deployments from 100 kW to 5 MW.

EdgeDistributedRemote
13 min readRead Guide

PUE Optimization and Energy Efficiency Guide

System-by-system breakdown of PUE contributors with actionable optimization strategies for cooling, power distribution, UPS topology, and measurement verification.

PUEEfficiencySustainability
14 min readRead Guide

Redundancy and Tier Design Guide

Redundancy configurations from N through 2N+1, Uptime Institute tier classifications, and cost-availability tradeoffs mapped to each GridCore deployment model.

RedundancyUptime TierAvailability
15 min readRead Guide

Site Selection Criteria Guide

Structured evaluation framework for candidate sites covering power availability, connectivity, climate, permitting, natural hazards, and construction logistics.

Site SelectionPlanningDue Diligence
12 min readRead Guide