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