Data Center Tour & Technical Deep Dive into the Power, Data and Cooling Infrastructure!

My good friends at Deft gave me a guided tour of one of their datacenters where I learned about the power, cooling, and backup systems in place. I even got a technical deep dive into how the centrifugal (flywheel) UPS works along with many other details that keep operations running smoothly. This isn’t sponsored content; it’s just us having fun and geeking out over the amazing systems in place. Join us and let us know if there are other datacenters or other types of facilities you’d like to see in the comments! 00:00 Welcome to the Data Center: An Insider's Tour 01:27 Flywheel Centrifugal UPS 02:53 Inside The Diesel Generator Room 08:13 Climate Control: Pump Room, Cooling Systems & Evaporator Towers 11:00 Fiber Optics and Data Connectivity and Redundancies 16:48 Air Handlers and Raised Floor Cooling in the Server Room 19:18 Server Room Power Distribution Insights 21:43 How Deft Secures Colo Cabinets 22:44 Maintaining Servers in the Parts and Service Room