Choices
Levers
- Annual electricity bill, gross
- Premium
- After customers’ share
- Premium
- Customers pay their metered share at cost
- Annual PUE
- 1.20
- Modelled for this design and climate
- Energy a year
- 109 GWh
- IT 89.4 GWh, with cooling, losses and idle draw
- Carbon a year
- 35,800 t CO₂
- Grid average, location-based
Where the energy goes
Where the energy goes| Use | MWh a year | Share |
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| IT load | 89,352 | 82% |
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| Power distribution and UPS losses | 4,443 | 4% |
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| Fans and pumps | 5,332 | 5% |
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| Cooling compressors | 6,317 | 6% |
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| Lighting and other | 1,777 | 2% |
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| Idle draw of unsold capacity | 1,314 | 1% |
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| Total | 108,536 | 100% |
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As each phase opens
As each phase opens| After phase | Built | Contracted | Electricity | Bill a year | Net cost |
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| Phase 1 | 10.0 MW | 8.5 MW | 54.3 GWh | Premium | Premium |
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| Phase 2 | 20.0 MW | 17.0 MW | 109 GWh | Premium | Premium |
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20 MW IT in Frankfurt at 60% average load and 85% of capacity sold. Air-cooled chillers, free cooling.
What each lever saves is in Premium.
The bill, the net cost and the price check against the official band are in Premium.
Climate and grid carbon as the Plan’s market data; prices from Eurostat in Premium.
- Staff a year
- Premium
- People on site
- 17.3 FTE
- Roles for 20 MW IT
- Engineers on shift
- 2
- Covering the site on shift at all hours
Roles for this site
Roles for this site| Role | FTE | Basis |
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| Senior technicians on the 24/7 rota (shift leads) | 4.00 | 2 on shift at all hours |
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| Junior technicians on the 24/7 rota | 7.00 | |
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| Site manager | 1.00 | |
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| Facilities and maintenance manager | 0.50 | Shared across sites |
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| Maintenance technicians (weekdays) | 4.00 | |
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| Health, safety and compliance | 0.50 | Shared across sites |
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| Regional manager | 0.25 | Shared across sites |
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Counted elsewhere, so not in this line: guards (Security), cleaners (Cleaning), contracted maintenance (Repair and maintenance) and head office (the Plan’s overheads).
Roles and rota from the Plan’s staffing model; the cost per person from the official labour cost series, in Premium.
- Security a year
- Premium
- Guard posts
- 2
- The Plan’s count for 20 MW IT
- Guarded hours a year
- 17,520
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Lines of the cost
Lines of the cost| Line | Quantity | Unit |
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| Guarded hours | 17,520 | guard-hours |
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Working time and pay floors from the official labour rules of each country; labour cost per hour from Eurostat. Rates in Premium.
- Cleaning a year
- Premium
- Area cleaned
- 15,343 m²
- Zones with at least one visit
- Cleaning hours a year
- 4,232
- Area times visits, over the square metres cleaned an hour
Cleaning by zone
Cleaning by zone| Zone | Area | Visits a year | m² an hour | Hours a year |
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| White space | 6,088 m² | 52 | 150 | 2,111 |
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| Plant rooms | 7,860 m² | 12 | 250 | 377 |
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| Offices and ancillary | 1,395 m² | 250 | 200 | 1,744 |
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Areas come from the Plan’s floor plan for 20 MW IT; the visits a year and the square metres cleaned an hour are yours to set.
Floor areas from the Plan; labour cost per hour from Eurostat and the pay floors of each country, in Premium.
Choices
Units of each class
Empty keeps the design's count.
- Repair and maintenance a year
- Premium
- Per kW IT a month
- Premium
- Assets in scope
- 577
- Counted from the design
Asset classes in the design
Asset classes in the design| Class | Units | Size | Visits a year set by rule |
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| UPS modules and batteries | 88 modules | 500 kVA | – |
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| Generator sets | 22 sets | 2,000 kVA | – |
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| Transformers | 28 units | 2,500 kVA | – |
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| MV switchgear, LV boards and floor PDUs | 203 panels | – | – |
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| Chillers | 24 units | 1,000 kW | 2 |
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| Room cooling units and CDUs | 212 units | 100 kW | – |
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| Fire detection and suppression | 1 site | – | – |
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| BMS and EPMS | 1 site | 20,000 kW IT | – |
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| Electrical testing, earthing and lightning | 1 site | 20,000 kW IT | – |
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Sized from the Plan: 20 MW IT in 2 phases, chilled-water room units, 577 assets in scope. Design the plant in Build to refine it.
Each class is priced from planned maintenance, mobilisation, tests, corrective repairs and spares, with the contract tier on top.
Counted elsewhere, so not in this line: CCTV and access-control maintenance: Security; Building fabric, lifts, doors and minor works: Cleaning and building services; Energy and water use: Energy; End-of-life replacement and major overhauls: Build, as sustaining capex.
Inspection cadences from the maintenance rules of each country’s regulator.
- Certifications a year
- Premium
Your own staff time is not counted here: it is in Staff, the line above. Build-phase ratings are listed as one-offs, to be priced in Build.
DC Comply runs the cycles, audit calendars and readiness for these programmes.
Open DC Comply
Programme facts from each scheme owner’s public page and the official bodies that publish the rules; fees in Premium.