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CONTAINERIZED DATA CENTERS

A data hall that arrives on a truck, pre-tested

Factory-built, all-in-one IT modules in ISO container envelopes. Power, cooling, fire suppression, physical security and rack space integrated and proven before the unit leaves the hall. Relocatable, weatherproof, ready to connect.

Execution
EN 1090 EXC2
Cooling
Precision / liquid-ready
Power
UPS + distribution
Protection
Fire + security

At a glance

Execution
EN 1090 EXC2
Cooling
Precision / liquid-ready
Power
UPS + distribution
Protection
Fire + security

Overview

Overview

We design, build and customise containerized data centers to your specification. A containerized data center is a complete IT hall packed into an ISO container envelope: rack space, power distribution, climate control, fire detection and suppression, and physical security, all integrated, wired and pre-tested on our line before the unit ships. The buyer receives a sealed, weatherproof module that lands on a prepared pad and connects to power and a fibre tail within days, not the eighteen to twenty-four months a built-from-scratch data hall typically takes.

This is not a single product. It is the full range a digital-infrastructure buyer needs, customised to the brief in front of us: single-rack edge enclosures, multi-rack IT modules, dedicated power and cooling modules that sit alongside the IT cell, disaster-recovery shells held in reserve, and clustered campuses assembled from several modules on one pad. Every envelope leaves the same hall in Bánovce nad Bebravou that builds our office, sanitary and special-purpose work, under the same EN 1090-1 EXC2 steel chain and the same documentation discipline.

The advantages are speed, mobility and predictability. Capacity goes live in weeks. A module can be relocated when the workload moves. And because the unit is built and commissioned indoors against a fixed specification, what is tested in the hall is what runs on site.

CONTAINERIZED DATA CENTERS · hall view
CONTAINERIZED DATA CENTERS · weld + paint
CONTAINERIZED DATA CENTERS · finished unit

Build standard

Construction and materials

A containerized data center inherits the structural language of our ISO and special-purpose families, then adds the systems a live IT load requires. Common build elements:

01

Envelope

EN 1090-1 EXC2 steel frame and body, ISO 1CC corner castings for stacking and intermodal handling, weatherproof to the deployment climate.

02

Insulation

PIR sandwich panel walls and roof, vapour-sealed, sized to the thermal and acoustic brief.

03

Thermal management

in-row or perimeter precision cooling, hot-aisle or cold-aisle containment, free-cooling economiser where the climate allows.

04

Power path

distribution boards, busway or cabling to the rack, UPS-ready and generator-ready inlets, transfer switching prepared to the load schedule.

05

Fire safety

very-early smoke detection and a clean-agent or equivalent suppression system, interlocked with the cooling and power controls.

06

Physical security

hardened door sets, access control, intrusion detection and camera preparation, no vision panels on the IT cell.

07

Racks and containment

standard 19-inch rack rows, cable management, sealed floor and roof penetrations for power and fibre.

08

Finish

ISO 8501 Sa 2.5 surface preparation, EN ISO 12944 C3 to C5 coating to the site corrosivity, any RAL livery.

Certified

Certifications and norms

The execution class is the headline, and the systems are integrated to recognised electrical and safety norms. Run on the same line:

  • EN 1090-1 EXC2 (execution class for the steel structure)
  • EN ISO 3834-2 (welding, production level)
  • EN ISO 9606 welder qualification (MAG 135 and related processes)
  • ISO 8501 Sa 2.5 surface preparation, EN ISO 12944 C3 to C5 coating
  • PN-HD 60364 low-voltage electrical design for the power path
  • EN 10204 3.1 mill certificates on traceable steel
  • ISO 9001 quality and ISO 14001 environmental management
  • CSC plate (Container Safety Convention) where the unit is intended for intermodal handling
  • Factory acceptance test and documented commissioning before dispatch

Site-level grid, cooling-medium and certification requirements are confirmed at the specification stage and engineered into the build.

Deployment

Typical use cases

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Edge computing

Compute and storage pushed close to where data is generated, in locations with no suitable building. Single-rack to small multi-rack modules, hardened and unattended.

Configure

Customisation options

Anything we can integrate, wire, test and seal inside the hall can be specified. Common deviation routes:

air-cooled rows, in-row coolers, or a separate cooling module for higher-density racks and liquid-ready loads.

Lead time

Lead time and delivery

A containerized data center runs on a 10 to 16 week custom schedule from signed-off drawings to ex works dispatch; simpler edge modules can follow the catalog 6 to 10 week track.

Specification and NDA

within 24 hours of first contact when the brief is sensitive.

Quotation

3 to 10 working

a fixed price and lead time, typically within 3 to 10 working days.

Engineering

layout, power and cooling design, BOM, weld procedures, customer sign-off gate before steel is cut.

Production and integration

envelope, systems, racks and controls built and wired indoors.

Factory acceptance

power, cooling, fire and security systems tested as one before dispatch.

Delivery

EXW Bánovce nad Bebravou as default, DAP and DDP on request, with the as-built dossier on handover.

Proven in service

Reference deployments

The deployments below are described by region and sector only, in line with our anonymised reference policy. They show the kind of work the line is built for; configuration detail is indicative.

All projects

Central Europe, colocation operator

  • Multi-rack IT module added alongside a live data hall to bridge a capacity shortfall
  • Precision in-row cooling with hot-aisle containment
  • Dual power feed, UPS-ready, generator-ready inlet, metering to the operator's monitoring
  • Very-early smoke detection with clean-agent suppression
  • Access control, intrusion detection and camera preparation on a hardened door set
  • Use case: capacity expansion online in weeks while a permanent build proceeds

A pre-tested module on a prepared pad let the operator sell capacity long before a conventional white-space fit-out would have been ready. The value here is time.

Western Europe, public-sector digital platform

  • Self-contained, access-controlled IT module on the authority's own ground
  • PIR sandwich envelope, C3 coating, sealed power and fibre penetrations
  • Redundant cooling path with environmental monitoring and remote alerting
  • Use case: sovereign workload kept on-premises where colocation was not an option

A self-contained hall on the buyer's own site keeps a sensitive workload under direct control while still arriving as a single, commissioned unit.

Nordics, edge network operator

  • Single-rack hardened edge enclosure for an unattended location with no suitable building
  • Free-cooling economiser suited to the cold climate, C4 coating for exposure
  • Remote monitoring, intrusion detection, no vision panels on the IT cell
  • Use case: compute pushed to the network edge, redeployable when the workload moves

Edge work rewards a sealed, weatherproof box that runs unattended and can be lifted and moved when the network changes.

FAQ

FAQ

Send a specification. Get a fixed quote.

Engineering review included. Quotation turnaround is 3 to 5 working days for standard configurations.