Chinese data centre claims OCP first

Details: Vaughan O'Grady; Category: Data Centres & Networks; 27 October 2020; 4507 views

Chayora Limited, an international infrastructure investor, developer and operator of hyperscale data centre campuses in China, has been confirmed by the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) to be the first data centre facility having achieved OCP Ready certification in China.

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) was initiated in 2011 with a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the data centre’s networking equipment, general purpose and GPU servers, storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack designs.

This Chayora data centre, located to serve the Greater Beijing region in Tianjin, is designed to suit what is described as the explosive demand for processing in the China market. In fact Chayora says the TJ1 facility, as it is known, has exceeded the guidelines created by the OCP Data Centre Facility Project Team.

Chayora’s data centre is scalable from retail colocation to hyperscale and up to 25,000 racks with more than 300 MVA gross power available. Offering ultra-low-latency data transmission to Beijing’s Central Business District, all data halls are designed to accommodate the high demand for smaller-scale data storage requirements, including high-density requirements with 30kVA/rack at a leading-edge power usage effectiveness (PUE).

Chayora is cloud and carrier-neutral, with guaranteed performance availability of the equipment infrastructure including redundant and dual-powered servers, storage, network links and other IT components, and with security standards featuring six security zones and nine security layers.