WEBVTT 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:07.759 if you already know who equinex is you know the treat you're in for today for 00:00:05.319 --> 00:00:14.080 everyone else equinex who sponsored this facility tour was founded in 1998 and 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:17.199 currently operates over 260 data centers 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:19.359 globally through which flows over half 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:23.519 of the tier one internet backbone in a nutshell if you're using a computer 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:28.439 right now which you probably are like this guy you are more likely than not 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:33.280 touching equinex infrastructure right now and guys I get to take take you deep 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:38.239 behind the curtain I'm talking power data cooling security it's pretty much 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:42.760 everything that we do on our Channel yes even pool server cooling except 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:56.039 legit you see as pretty as it might look 00:00:53.960 --> 00:01:00.760 the building behind me was purpose-built from the ground up to be a function 00:00:58.680 --> 00:01:05.239 First Data Center and and that manifests in a lot of interesting ways for 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:10.960 starters it was not built from the ground up but rather the first floor was 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:14.960 lifted a few feet off of ground level 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:16.479 why security like any equinex facility 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:20.439 that building needs to be able to withstand a breach attempt from a 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:25.320 vehicle ramming into it but the city wouldn't let them surround it with ugly 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:27.520 barriers so instead they lifted up the 00:01:25.320 --> 00:01:34.000 foundation itself so if you drove anything less than that city bus into 45 00:01:31.720 --> 00:01:38.560 Parliament Street Toronto you would eventually regain Consciousness and find 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:42.119 the building to be quite unbreached honestly speaking you'd probably have 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:47.240 better luck getting inside if you just walk through the front 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:49.920 door JK once you get in there you'll 00:01:47.240 --> 00:01:55.159 find yourself in a series of airlock style doors like this one with at least 00:01:52.880 --> 00:02:01.799 three biometric security checkpoints before you so much as catch a glimpse of 00:01:57.399 --> 00:02:04.320 a customer rack oo but I get to go but 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:10.000 what's the big deal you might think it's just some servers and network switches 00:02:06.399 --> 00:02:12.319 right well yeah but really important 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:16.080 ones equinix houses critical infrastructure for everyone from 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:20.280 telecommunications providers to cloud service providers to Securities 00:02:17.720 --> 00:02:24.440 exchanges and even governments to put it in perspective some poor schlub 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:30.000 accidentally overcooked a bag of microwave popcorn at this location and 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:34.480 the city sent seven fir trucks on the off chance that equinex was on fire and 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:38.360 hadn't already Managed IT with their own fire suppression systems for more 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:42.959 context their service level agreement with diesel fuel providers is on par 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:46.400 with the local hospital because well think about it realistically is that 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:53.000 hospital getting anything done without data services probably not let's head up 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:56.840 here's something cool everything in this building except the generators we're 00:02:55.080 --> 00:03:01.000 about to see on the fifth floor was brought up in this freight elevator it 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:06.080 has a full ful loaded capacity that's equivalent to about four loaded Mini 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:10.640 Coopers and this is really important for cloud providers who pre-build their 00:03:07.799 --> 00:03:15.120 racks offsite it allows them to wheel a rack into their cage hook up power hook 00:03:12.959 --> 00:03:20.799 up Cooling and walk away we'll take a look at some of those cages later but 00:03:16.799 --> 00:03:23.920 first we need to go all the way up to 00:03:20.799 --> 00:03:25.879 the fifth floor where possible equinex 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:29.799 uses a top to bottom approach to building design so we're going to go in 00:03:27.720 --> 00:03:34.360 that order why do they design top down you might ask that's because if you 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:38.680 spring a leak it's going to go down so this floor contains everything that's 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:43.640 needed to run the whole building in the event of a major outside Interruption 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:50.000 and nothing can leak on top of it which is especially important for this inside 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:55.400 the apply named battery room is enough capacity to run the entire building at 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:57.920 full load for up to 15 minutes and if 00:03:55.400 --> 00:04:02.159 they need more time that's where these come in these diesel generators are 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:10.079 designed to run continuously at a capacity of 2.5 megaw each yes my 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:12.120 friends 2.5 million watts each getting 00:04:10.079 --> 00:04:15.599 these up here by the way took some special planning which I'm told involves 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:22.520 cutting a hole in the side of the building renting a crane and then 00:04:18.440 --> 00:04:24.880 sliding them in absolutely badass but 00:04:22.520 --> 00:04:29.880 there's one small problem now they've got to fuel them I mean they've got this 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:35.800 little Reservoir here but this one run one of these bad boys for what an 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:38.360 hour well as it turns out the main tanks 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:43.320 which include an onsite polisher to remove water and other impurities that 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:47.880 can spoil the fuel those are underground and this was done because diesel fuel is 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:53.199 lighter than water and equinex wanted to design this building such that if the 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:57.880 entire first floor was flooded the tanks wouldn't float away Wicked smart the 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:04.840 last thing they had to manage was the noise oh the noise noise noise 00:05:01.400 --> 00:05:07.160 noise now obviously equinex isn't going 00:05:04.840 --> 00:05:11.919 to hit their 2030 renewable energy goals by running diesel generators 247 but 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:15.199 they do need to perform monthly checks on them and I'm told that when you fire 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:19.919 those things up you can't even hear yourself think in here now given there 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:26.039 used to be a public library on the other side of this wall that was a problem so 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:30.240 equinix designed These acoustic baffles that Bring the Noise down to the same as 00:05:27.919 --> 00:05:34.400 a typical City Road and you can oh wow can you can probably 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:40.160 hear the difference right when I go in there oh yeah crazy kind of necessary if 00:05:38.039 --> 00:05:46.080 you consider that this is about the equivalent of having five bloody trains 00:05:42.880 --> 00:05:48.120 running in here fun fact before we leave 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:52.000 this room by the way diesel generation kicks off enough smoke that conventional 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:57.840 smoke detectors would be giving off constant false alarms so this room uses 00:05:54.880 --> 00:06:02.919 flame detectors special cameras that can see through smoke to see if there's 00:06:00.080 --> 00:06:08.440 actual fire moving into the chiller room we've got the exact opposite problem you 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:11.199 can fit so much water in this bad boy 00:06:08.440 --> 00:06:16.440 that is why absolutely no customer infrastructure is allowed under this 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:20.800 room in here are three main cooling Loops the one behind me is filled with 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:25.840 antifreeze that goes between these liquid to liquid Heat exchangers and the 00:06:23.280 --> 00:06:29.160 large evaporative cooling fin Stacks that are Up on the Roof we're going to 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:34.160 take a closer look at those in a minute but for now now I want to look at the 00:06:31.520 --> 00:06:39.639 other Loops those two are connected to what is in effect the biggest freaking 00:06:37.400 --> 00:06:45.240 air conditioner that I have ever seen except instead of cooling air like your 00:06:42.039 --> 00:06:47.919 air conditioner does it cools water the 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:52.319 hot side here carries heat to those same heat exchangers that we just talked 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:56.919 about while the cold side is connected to the rest of the building through what 00:06:54.080 --> 00:07:01.520 equinex calls their bus architecture which is kind of just a fancy way of 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:06.520 saying that it's all redundant it's all interconnected and it's all controlled 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:10.520 by a BMS or building management system and I'll show you why that's cool right 00:07:08.440 --> 00:07:15.440 above me is our chilled water return which is bringing heat up from the data 00:07:12.520 --> 00:07:22.199 center floors below okay so far so simple but where does it go 00:07:19.039 --> 00:07:25.240 well as you can see it gets a little 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:27.879 complicated when it's below 4° C in 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:31.479 Canadian winter it essentially passes straight through with the compressors 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:36.599 barely running and goes to the heat exchangers on the roof sweet free 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:41.199 cooling thanks Mother Nature but then spring rolls around and the outside air 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:45.039 needs some help that's when our highly efficient magnetic bearing compressors 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:50.759 ramp up their cooling efforts bringing our thermals under control but wait now 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:57.000 it's Midsummer and there's a heat Dome we need more cooling Captain thankfully 00:07:54.159 --> 00:08:02.440 we've got it now most of the time the misters are not needed but for a 00:07:59.960 --> 00:08:08.039 building like this you don't design for most of the time and these rooftop fin 00:08:04.840 --> 00:08:10.280 Stacks can either be run bare or they 00:08:08.039 --> 00:08:14.440 can be lightly coated in water to dramatically increase their cooling 00:08:12.039 --> 00:08:20.560 capacity it works in the same way that your arm gets much colder if you lick it 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:25.759 before you blow on it the best part is that everything we've seen is fully 00:08:23.080 --> 00:08:30.199 redundant including cold spares of key components that gives equinix's team 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.760 lots of options for load balancing during maintenance and it means that in 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:39.919 the event of an equipment failure or another event equinex won't risk giving 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:42.479 up their nice 69 uptime Target that's an 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:48.320 average of about 32 seconds of downtime per year by the way wow hilariously 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:51.839 sometime in the near future all the cooling we just looked at will be 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:57.000 rendered redundant though when the forth pipe goes online in the dlwc or deep 00:08:54.839 --> 00:09:01.480 lake water cooling system if you haven't heard of it it's basically my pool water 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:06.800 cool cooling setup except done properly with massive pipes that draw 4° water 00:09:04.680 --> 00:09:12.240 from the bottom of Lake Ontario and then pump it into the city to cool office 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:14.760 towers and Arenas and well data centers 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:19.720 that sort of thing super cool project since we're up here by the way these 00:09:16.760 --> 00:09:23.839 freaking blew my mind now as consumers when we want the lowest latency say for 00:09:21.800 --> 00:09:30.079 gaming or video conferencing we think fiber right well what if I told you that 00:09:26.760 --> 00:09:33.519 there's a tier above the speed of light 00:09:30.079 --> 00:09:35.880 well you'd probably tell me there is not 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:41.440 and all right you got me but here's the thing light does not always go the same 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:46.519 speed and fiber optic cable slows it down to about 2/3 of its theoretical 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:51.120 maximum in a vacuum now that's not enough to matter for your game but for 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:55.040 Capital Market transactions where micros seconds can be the difference between 00:09:52.800 --> 00:09:59.959 making your trade and losing a huge opportunity every Competitive Edge 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:05.560 matters and that is where these microwave arrays come in these provide 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:10.560 direct line of sight links North to the Toronto Stock Exchange and South to New 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:15.440 York now of course for anything where throughput matters nobody's using these 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:19.480 so let's go back inside and look at good oldfashioned fiber by the way you guys 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:22.839 might have noticed some extra pads and footings for additional equipment up 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:26.399 here that's another nice thing about a purpose-built building you can plan out 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:30.920 your future capacity and then you can build it as needed this for instance is 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:35.560 a spot for another fin stack and here in the electrical room you'll see much of 00:10:32.839 --> 00:10:39.680 the same thing look at the Glorious extra conduit for future installs isn't 00:10:38.880 --> 00:10:45.600 it beautiful this room takes in 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:48.040 13,800 volt power steps it down and 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:51.800 distributes it throughout the building but all right enough about 00:10:49.880 --> 00:10:57.360 infrastructure how about some customer systems right the next two floors are 00:10:54.440 --> 00:11:01.880 very similar so let's go with number four this is the oldest floor and 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:06.480 therefore uses some older design paradigms for starters cooling is 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:10.160 handled using cold Isle containment rather than hot aisle containment and 00:11:08.160 --> 00:11:15.040 let me show you what that means the water from above us is getting pumped 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:19.720 into this air handler Corridor that chills the air chilled air then gets 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:27.560 carried through ducts to the center of the customer's cage where a thermal 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:30.200 probe aha will inform the system when 00:11:27.560 --> 00:11:36.320 cooling is needed it opens up the motorized Vents and then blasts cold air 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:40.480 downward it then gets sucked up into the rack which is going to be on either side 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:45.600 and then exhausted out into the room where it gets sucked into that Corridor 00:11:42.760 --> 00:11:50.720 rinse and repeat now the main drawback of this approach is that it allows some 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:55.560 mixing of the hot and cold air but equinex still managed a solid power 00:11:53.480 --> 00:12:00.360 usage effectiveness of 1.42 for this site since you're 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:05.320 wondering by the way I should probably acknowledge that this is an Unleashed 00:12:03.160 --> 00:12:10.399 space and there are normally strict rules about access to these cages for 00:12:07.920 --> 00:12:16.680 example exchanges cannot have their cages entered at all during trading 00:12:13.199 --> 00:12:19.079 hours and even for equinex staff unless 00:12:16.680 --> 00:12:23.680 there's an emergency or contracted work that needs to be done they are not 00:12:21.560 --> 00:12:28.600 supposed to be entering customer spaces so they built these cool access panels 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:33.480 where they can run any connections that the customer requests to the outside of 00:12:31.079 --> 00:12:38.320 the cage and then the customer can come in and Route whatever they need for 00:12:35.920 --> 00:12:42.920 whatever they're doing access to the cages is controlled by access cards and 00:12:40.680 --> 00:12:48.959 Biometrics either a hand or a fingerprint that's stored as a hash for 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:51.880 customer privacy and any use of your 00:12:48.959 --> 00:12:56.600 card is logged on top of the logs for the biometric sensor the contact sensor 00:12:54.279 --> 00:13:01.279 on the door the motion sensor near the door ah there it is and of course the 00:12:59.560 --> 00:13:07.199 camera pointed at the back of the rack space and if all this seems Overkill You 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:12.440 Ain't Seen Nothing Yet many of the cages not only have physical access barriers 00:13:09.959 --> 00:13:18.160 but even visual blockers so no one can see any of the equipment in use and for 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:22.600 the extra paranoid a top cage can be installed to ensure that nobody can 00:13:20.040 --> 00:13:26.040 climb over the top though of course anyone trying to do that would have been 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:30.440 spotted by one of the hundreds of cameras in this place but then as you 00:13:28.760 --> 00:13:36.000 probably picked up by now in this business redundancy is the name of the 00:13:32.959 --> 00:13:38.600 game some cages go even further 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:43.880 requiring what's called double access meaning that to get inside you need both 00:13:41.160 --> 00:13:49.160 an equinex employee and a customer employee and we even saw one with a 00:13:46.560 --> 00:13:53.759 touch sensitive cage so if you so much as leaned against it a ticket would get 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:58.720 automatically created and equinex security would get an Irate phone call 00:13:55.880 --> 00:14:04.199 but wait there's more they told me that some customers will even post a guard 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:09.240 who stands outside their cage 24 hours a day 7 days a week financial institutions 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:14.120 and government agencies will often operate with a high degree of security 00:14:11.160 --> 00:14:18.959 like that speaking of financial institutions certain customers have 00:14:16.880 --> 00:14:24.279 noticed that if they're closer to each other they can have a physical advantage 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:26.880 in connection times well that's not 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:32.360 necessarily a good thing to solve that problem then equinex has a system called 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:37.560 equidistant trading that neutralizes any latency Advantage by running the exact 00:14:34.880 --> 00:14:42.600 same length of fiber to every customer who requires that the spools of excess 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:47.680 fiber optic cable are one of the most protected things in the entire facility 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:52.560 now I was able to convince them to open the door earlier for a quick b-roll shot 00:14:50.199 --> 00:14:56.959 but they wouldn't let us any closer there's a camera pointed at the cabinet 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:02.120 and if anyone so much as goes near it security shows up and it's a whole to do 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:07.800 with reports to the SEC and the whole kazoo moving on to the second floor this 00:15:04.959 --> 00:15:11.880 place is sick now we weren't able to shoot as much here due to customer 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:16.360 privacy concerns but we did manage to get some footage of one of the liquid 00:15:13.560 --> 00:15:20.759 cooled cages here building cold water goes into a heat exchanger that pumps 00:15:18.800 --> 00:15:25.880 chilled water to their highdensity servers these kinds of deployments are 00:15:23.079 --> 00:15:30.959 becoming much more common but they're kind of an ongoing challenge for 00:15:27.800 --> 00:15:33.680 standards lovers equinex at the moment 00:15:30.959 --> 00:15:38.959 these guys dial in flipping everything down to the colors of the metal posts in 00:15:36.199 --> 00:15:45.880 their facilities by the way blue means you hang stuff off them and gray means 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:47.639 they hold stuff up the more you know but 00:15:45.880 --> 00:15:52.680 the lack of standards in the liquid cooling space right now means that these 00:15:49.959 --> 00:15:56.079 cages often need special provisions and that's something that they're working 00:15:53.800 --> 00:16:02.120 with others in the industry to solve as rack power density continues to scale to 00:15:58.680 --> 00:16:03.360 l ludicrous levels looking at you AI 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:07.759 while we're here there's a couple other cool things about this cage there's leak 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:11.920 containment troughs in the ceiling under any water pipes to ensure that even a 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:16.319 small leak will be caught and can't fall onto the equipment below it and if you 00:16:14.319 --> 00:16:20.720 look carefully at the floor there's actually little yellow ropes running 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:24.920 around the outside of this cage and here on the first floor I see another one now 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:29.160 I wouldn't blame you guys for thinking gee it seems uncharacteristically sloppy 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:34.920 of these guys to leave this kind of thing lying around all over the place 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:36.600 but it's actually not a rope they are 00:16:34.920 --> 00:16:40.839 everywhere in this facility where there's water and they're part of a leak 00:16:38.680 --> 00:16:48.079 detection system that tells their team not only if there's been a leak but 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:49.759 exactly exactly where it was boy would 00:16:48.079 --> 00:16:54.480 that ever have been handy boy would that ever have been handy boy would that ever 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:58.440 been handy since we're here by the way this happens to be the newest floor in 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:02.399 the building remember top to bottom buildout right this one was done about a 00:17:00.680 --> 00:17:07.880 year ago and they refer to this data Hall as a as a mark1 design but now that 00:17:05.919 --> 00:17:12.079 AI has exploded power densities to numbers that would have been Unthinkable 00:17:09.360 --> 00:17:17.160 even 2 to 3 years ago the mark 2 designs that they're currently constructing are 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:19.559 aiming at around 10 times the power per 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:25.319 square foot that they targeted here so maybe that's something we could see in 00:17:20.919 --> 00:17:27.079 another video equinex andho this floor 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:32.520 uses a very different system for handling Air instead of pushing cold air 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:35.400 to the cages now they pull hot air out 00:17:32.520 --> 00:17:40.480 of the cages into these chimneys that go up into the plenum which runs into the 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:42.880 air handlers now it might seem like an 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:46.640 unimportant distinction but the higher the temperature difference the more 00:17:44.760 --> 00:17:51.919 efficient the thermal transfer and when you're dealing with very high draw racks 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:57.480 this ensures that the hottest possible air goes into the handling it also all 00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:02.360 but completely prevents hot and cold air from mixing which is a major winre 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:07.880 efficiency now I can practically hear you guys shouting if you've got all the 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:10.159 hot air in a chimney why don't you do 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:15.120 what a chimney does best and blast it out of the building well you can do that 00:18:13.080 --> 00:18:19.880 but then you need to bring in air to replace it air that needs to be filtered 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:26.200 and that needs to be humidity controlled to handle that at the kind of volume 00:18:22.280 --> 00:18:28.440 that you would need it's impractical so 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:33.400 even under very extreme conditions like we saw last winter in Chicago I'm sorry 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:37.679 but you can't just swing open the doors of a Data Center and hope that it'll run 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:41.799 cooler by the way we didn't show this on the other customer floors but there's 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:47.159 actually two equivalent air handling systems on opposite sides of each floor 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:51.679 each with the capacity to handle the entire floor in the event of a failure 00:18:50.120 --> 00:18:57.080 by the way before we leave the customer systems area I was very surprised to 00:18:54.360 --> 00:19:02.159 hear that equinex does not use exotic fire suppression methods op instead for 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:07.799 standard water sprinklers but then I found out they're not quite standard see 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:12.720 the pipes are not flooded with water all the time but rather they're full of 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:16.000 inert gas and water only flows into them 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:18.280 if two out of three systems go off and a 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:24.679 plastic head melt so they use heat detection smoke detection and the 00:19:21.080 --> 00:19:27.600 world's most expensive PVC runs these 00:19:24.679 --> 00:19:32.280 are part of a vesda or very early smoke detection alarm system system that can 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:37.080 not only detect smoke but also triangulate where it's coming from to 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:41.159 ensure that only the necessary sprinkler head goes off they made this choice 00:19:39.520 --> 00:19:45.360 because oxygen depletion fire suppression can pose very real risks to 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:51.559 any Personnel who get accidentally trapped so good guy equinex let's go to 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:55.840 the basement above me is where utility power comes into the building or rather 00:19:53.600 --> 00:20:01.679 this is one of the two rooms because redundancy right now interestingly the 00:19:59.159 --> 00:20:06.200 power company can actually control this unit remotely allowing them to turn it 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:13.520 on and off and even scale how much power comes in that is not a normal thing but 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:16.159 because there's so much power going into 00:20:13.520 --> 00:20:22.159 this building in an emergency they might need to call equinix and say hey um we 00:20:19.679 --> 00:20:26.159 need more power could you guys just turn all of this off and Island yourselves 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:30.120 this kind of collaboration is really important because equinex estimates that 00:20:28.520 --> 00:20:35.919 this this building draws somewhere in the neighborhood of 3% of the city's 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:38.240 entire power budget if a multi megawatt 00:20:35.919 --> 00:20:42.840 load kicks in suddenly without warning or drops suddenly without warning it is 00:20:40.320 --> 00:20:47.480 a big problem for grid stability with that said they do turn it off and on 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:52.200 regularly though every year they do a scheduled pull the plug test and 00:20:49.919 --> 00:20:56.400 quarterly they do load tests where they will bring in load Banks to ensure that 00:20:54.679 --> 00:20:59.840 the building can actually power everything that it's rated for these 00:20:58.120 --> 00:21:03.799 things sound pretty cool basically if they don't have enough servers running 00:21:01.320 --> 00:21:09.480 they bring in Big Blocks of metal and they fire up the generators and make 00:21:05.320 --> 00:21:11.600 them glow red hot flipping wild finally 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:15.000 there's the fiber in room it's funny they thought that this was going to be 00:21:13.120 --> 00:21:19.080 underwhelming and they were all like are you sure you even want to see it but it 00:21:17.159 --> 00:21:23.640 really goes to show you how numb you can get to cool stuff if you spend your 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:28.200 whole day around it now in fairness to them they are kind of right I mean it 00:21:26.520 --> 00:21:34.039 pretty much looks exactly like the fiber room our building back home line comes 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:36.320 in from outside line loops around as is 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:42.080 tradition and then gets spliced or patched to wherever the difference is 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:47.640 that I could probably fit my entire family hula hooping inside these 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:53.080 freaking loops and where they go to is even cooler they go outside to one of 00:21:51.080 --> 00:21:58.760 the seven manholes that get shared by the approximately 60 carriers that route 00:21:55.960 --> 00:22:05.200 into this building that is what the carrier's access ends equinix splices 00:22:02.600 --> 00:22:10.039 runs from the manholes to this room and then they run it up to the floors above 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:15.400 the carriers only get access again once it reaches their cage this is how 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:20.880 equinex enforces the principle of equity of access that inspired their name oh 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:25.080 and of course there are two of these rooms with fiber coming in from two 00:22:23.120 --> 00:22:28.880 different sides of the building because in the event of a construction worker 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:33.400 accidentally cutting one of these or something they got to have redundancy I 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:37.320 got to tell you guys there is so much we weren't able to fully cover if you 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:41.559 noticed QR codes on everything those are cool they use AR to direct technicians 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:46.120 for fault Discovery and to map out customer connection requests um the 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:50.159 18-wheeler dock can be completely closed off for privacy and security when you're 00:22:48.080 --> 00:22:54.760 unloading racks uh they have employee facilities on site so when an emergency 00:22:52.520 --> 00:22:58.799 you can shower shave sleep you know your 3 s's um they turn off the lights 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:02.600 whenever no humans are detected to save power they've got grounding strips 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:06.720 freaking everywhere they have direct links to their other buildings to turn 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:12.039 their entire flock of data centers into a giant redundant mesh guys there is so 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:16.400 much more but I think it might have to wait for next time for now massive 00:23:14.840 --> 00:23:20.760 thanks to equinix for sponsoring this video and giving us such an in-depth 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:25.320 look at the kind of space that most people are never going to set foot in 00:23:22.520 --> 00:23:28.600 let alone get a comprehensive tour of hopefully we'll get a chance to do it 00:23:26.679 --> 00:23:32.760 again sometime if you guys enjoyed this video hey you might enjoy this kind of 00:23:30.760 --> 00:23:38.679 high security nobody gets to see it kind of stuff so maybe check out the Intel 00:23:34.840 --> 00:23:38.679 Fab tour that we did last year