Data Centers

Delivering sustainable, reliable data center solutions.

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Our history is long when it comes to delivering sustainable, resilient data centers.

At Jacobs, we understand the need for a global network of expertise and knowledge to design for scalability, adapt for market demand, and innovate to remain several steps ahead. We create impactful solutions so you can succeed – not just today but into tomorrow.

For over 30 years, high-technology, mission critical design has been at the core of our practice. Jacobs is the global leader in providing integrated planning, architecture, engineering, project and construction management and commissioning for data center facilities. Ranked No. 1 Data Center Design Firm (Engineering News-Record) and No. 1 Data Center Engineering Firm (Building Design + Construction), in the past ten years, we've delivered over 17 million square feet of data center white space and 3,600 MW in power demand, worth more than $30 billion in construction value.

  • # 1

    Data Center Design Firm (Engineering News-Record)

  • 6.6 GW

    of data center space delivered

  • # 1

    Data Center Engineering Firm (Building Design + Construction)

  • 1 K+

    data center-focused teammates globally

“With our rapid shift to virtualization during the past year, data centers are even more critical to how we work and live. Jacobs’ global team works across six continents to deliver projects for some of the world’s largest data center providers often under crucial time constraints. Our team of subject matter experts is also addressing critical challenges for the industry like sustainability and carbon neutrality, driving innovation around renewable power and water technologies for many of our clients.”

Koti Vadlamudi

Jacobs Senior Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Facilities

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    Our history is long when it comes to delivering sustainable data centers.

  • Cloud Condos

    Cloud Condos is a Plan of Record concept that brings together the best of both Hyperscale and Colocation data center design. 

Driving Sustainability in Data Centers

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As the world generates more data than ever, reducing the environmental footprint of power-hungry data centers is becoming increasingly important.

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Our projects

  • PennState_Hershe
    University Technology Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S.

    Designed not only for visual quality and campus fit, performance, resiliency and cost effectiveness but also for energy efficiency and sustainability, Jacobs led the design of the new facility expected to be 60% more energy efficient than typical data centers.

  • Confidential Client, Data Center, Northern California, U.S.
    Confidential Client, Data Center, Northern California, U.S.

    Designed not only for visual quality and campus fit, performance, resiliency and cost effectiveness but also for energy efficiency and sustainability, Jacobs led the design of the new facility expected to be 60% more energy efficient than typical data centers.

  • U.S. GSA Region 3, Social Security Administration National Support Center, Urbana, Maryland, U.S.
    U.S. GSA Region 3, Social Security Administration National Support Center, Urbana, Maryland, U.S.

    We provided a variety of design and construction services for a new data center, comprised of multiple buildings encompassing over 300,000 square feet on a 281-acre greenfield site with new utility services and infrastructure. The project includes an energy center and office building and achieved a LEED Gold certification based on aggressive energy savings measures. 

  • Confidential Client, Colocation Data Center, Northern Virginia, U.S.
    Confidential Client, Colocation Data Center, Northern Virginia, U.S.

    Jacobs provided engineering design services for the prototype design for a modular scalable Tier III data center and site-specific design for multiple locations. The facility includes six co-location suites plus administrative and support areas totaling approximately 185,000 square feet. We designed for high efficiency/low PUE and speed to market.

  • Confidential Client, Colocation Data Center, Northern California, U.S.
    Confidential Client, Colocation Data Center, Northern California, U.S.

    Jacobs provided engineering design services for the prototype design for a modular scalable Tier III data center and site-specific design for multiple locations. The facility includes six co-location suites plus administrative and support areas totaling approximately 185,000 square feet. We designed for high efficiency/low PUE and speed to market.

  • OCP Data Center, Benguerir, Morocco
    OCP Data Center, Benguerir, Morocco

    Located at the Techpark of the Green City of Mohammed VI which is the largest solar energy research site in Africa, this new Tier III/IV Uptime-certified data center provides world class infrastructure serving Morocco and the African continent. Built as an element of OCP’s digital transformation policy, the Benguerir data center includes (4) 500-SM data halls delivering a total of 5MW of IT capacity.

  • Utah Data Center
    Utah Data Center

    The Balfour Beatty | DPR | Big-D joint venture, with Jacobs and Architectural Nexus as design partners, provided design-build services for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Utah Data Center (UDC) at Camp Williams, Utah.

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Advanced Manufacturing

Our differentiating capabilities in the advanced manufacturing market include Jacobs’ highly advanced design and engineering in the electrification ecosystem, data centers and semiconductor manufacturing – deployed through a global integrated delivery platform.

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