Brick-and-mortar data centre builds have traditionally supported highly customised, large-scale facilities, but they often result in long lead times and more complex project management.
Prefabricated modular solutions leverage pre-engineering, factory-built modules for power, cooling and IT infrastructure that are shipped to site for rapid assembly, providing quicker deployment, quality control and improved cost predictability.
The recently-launched Vertiv™ OneCore, a prefabricated, hybrid-built data centre solution, represents a convergence of these two established approaches into a single, integrated platform. This brings together the scale and robustness of conventional builds with the speed, flexibility and efficiency of modular infrastructure deployment, creating a model designed for today’s evolving digital infrastructure landscape.
Vertiv™ OneCore’s hybrid approach helps organisations to bring capacity online faster, reduce project risk, optimise costs through repeatable modular design and maintain the adaptability expected to address evolving demands such as AI computing workloads and efficiency goals.
The Vertiv™ OneCore solution is designed for high-capacity deployments (10+ MW) and mixed load environments, offering configurable modules that can help to reduce on-site work and accelerate commissioning for AI factories and other fast-scaling environments.
Vertiv™ OneCore’s modularity also allows customers to choose the optimal balance between prefabrication and local build, delivering flexibility that is critical for varying environmental, power and site regulatory constraints globally.
A Vertiv‑provided prefabricated steel data hall is an optional building shell designed to serve as the primary structure of the data centre. Its flexible architecture supports any data centre size without predefined physical or IT load constraints.
For customers who prefer to manage the civil and structural scope independently, Vertiv supplies all technological modules and functional OneCore building blocks while the customer or their General Contractor constructs the hall.
One of the key features of the Vertiv OneCore is the possibility to have both power and cooling modules on skids for even easier and quicker installation in halls or for brownfield deployments.
A service module provides an essential space that enables core data centre functionality by accommodating Remote Power Panels, optional step-down transformers, routes for power cables and busways, fire extinguishing equipment and evacuation pathways.
Additional modules can also be added to be used as meeting rooms, or control rooms. In addition to power and cooling modules capable of supporting all technologies across the power and thermal chains, Vertiv also provides integrated digital controls and telemetry.
With onboard intelligence like Vertiv™ Unify, positioning Vertiv™ OneCore as both physical infrastructure and an operational platform for faster, more responsive orchestration.
The goal is to treat the data centre as a repeatable, building block (incorporating reference designs, factory build and field assembly) to minimise risk, shorten AI deployment timelines and drive standardisation across regions.
This approach allows organisations to focus on compute/application innovation, scaling their growth and advancing energy-efficient operations, while Vertiv delivers efficient, resilient and scalable power, cooling and whitespace infrastructure solutions.
For more information on the Vertiv™ OneCore solution or other Vertiv Integrated Solutions, please visit Vertiv.com.