Sustainable Data Centre Design & Operations (Asynchronous E-learning)
About This Course
The course is designed to develop learners’ understanding of sustainable data centre design and operational strategies to support energy efficiency, decarbonisation, and resilient digital infrastructure. As data centres play a critical role in supporting the digital economy, they also present growing environmental challenges due to high energy demand, intensive cooling requirements, and increasing carbon emissions. Built environment and data centre professionals are therefore required to adopt innovative design and operational approaches that balance performance, reliability, and sustainability.
Through the course, learners strengthen their competencies in applying energy‑efficient data centre design and layout optimisation to improve power usage effectiveness (PUE), evaluate advanced cooling technologies including liquid cooling, free cooling, and AI‑driven thermal management, integrate renewable energy and low‑carbon power strategies such as on‑site generation and power purchase agreements, and implement waste heat recovery and reuse solutions to enhance overall system efficiency. Learners will be equipped with practical knowledge to assess real‑world data centre projects and contribute to the development of energy‑efficient, low‑carbon, and future‑ready data centre facilities.
What You'll Learn
b. Explain energy efficient data centre design strategies, including high efficiency IT infrastructure, layout optimisation, and power usage effectiveness (PUE)
c. Evaluate advanced cooling technologies, including liquid cooling, free cooling, and AI driven thermal management, for improving data centre energy performance
d. Assess renewable energy integration options such as on site generation, off site power purchase agreements (PPAs), and energy storage solutions for low carbon data centres
e. Apply waste heat recovery and reuse strategies to enhance overall system efficiency and support district energy or adjacent building applications
f. Analyse real world data centre projects to identify opportunities for energy efficiency, carbon reduction, and operational optimisation
g. Contribute to the planning and delivery of energy efficient, low carbon, and future ready data centre facilities in professional practice
Entry Requirements
Local Polytechnic Diploma or Local Degree in Engineering, Built Environment, Technology or Physics
OR
Local Polytechnic Diploma or Local Degree in non-engineering / non-technology disciplines with a credit or minimum grade of C6 in GCE 'O' Level Physics or Physical Science