Infrastructure you can examine.
192 racks in Ambattur, two halls, 1.2 MW of design IT load — every figure checkable against the drawing it came from.
Roof plant deck3 × 200 TR chillers (N+1)
Level 2 — Hall B96 racks · second fit-out
Level 1 — Hall A96 racks · one row of 12 shown
Level 0 — plantLT boards · UPS · meet-me room
Standby generation3 × 1,000 kVA (N+1)
Substation yard2 × 11 kV feeders
Two fibre entriesSeparate routes below grade
Colo Chennai — concept facility
- Racks
- 192
- Design IT load
- 1,200 kW
- Built-up area
- 62,000 sq ft
Uptime figures are easy to publish. A section drawing is harder to fake.
Most colocation sites open with a number nobody can check. We would rather show you the building: where the power enters, what carries the load when it stops, how air moves through a hall and where a fibre pair actually lands.
Everything on this site is design intent for a facility at concept stage. Where a document would normally be produced — a commissioning report, an incident record, a capacity register — we have described its structure instead of claiming to hold it.
If a figure appears twice, it is the same figure. Change the rack count in the brief and the footprint drawing changes with it.
Inside one contained aisle
Two overhead buswaysA feed and B feed, one per row
Every cabinet takes bothEither path carries the cabinet alone
Aisle draw at design load150 kW across 24 cabinets
Pick a cabinet in the drawing to read its detail. Positions, loads and feeds are the design intent for this illustrative aisle — not a live view of an occupied hall.
Turn a system off and see what is left.
Every path that keeps a cabinet running is drawn separately, so you can follow one at a time instead of reading a diagram with everything on it at once.
Utility supply2 × 11 kV · 3 × 1,250 kVA
Standby set3 × 1,000 kVA (N+1)
UPS and battery3 × 800 kVA · 10 min
To the roof deckFlow and return
Hot aisle returnNo mixing at the cabinet
Drawn: Utility supply · Standby generation · UPS and battery · Chilled water · Air path in the hall. Design IT load 1,200 kW across 192 racks.
Three jobs that are not the same job.
Watching a facility, responding when something goes wrong and keeping the plant serviced are separate responsibilities with separate people. Here is how each one is written down.
Six things are watched continuously. Each one has a source and a threshold, so an alarm means the same thing to everyone on shift.
The paperwork a facility should be able to hand you.
This is a list of documents, not a list of credentials. Each one is described by what it would contain and marked as still to be prepared.
Colo Chennai is a fictional showcase brand. No item below is an audited certificate, a Tier rating or a service-level guarantee, and none has been issued by any body. They are the documents a facility at this stage would be working towards.
Load, redundancy and topology assumptions behind every number on this site, with the calculation for each.
Factory, site, functional and integrated system testing, and what evidence each level produces.
Access control, escort rules, change windows and the runbook responsibilities set out on the home page.
The planned works calendar, the vendor for each system and the record kept after every visit.
How an event is logged, escalated, closed and reviewed, and what the customer receives afterwards.
Power, cooling and space committed against installed capacity, updated when a cabinet is energised.
Questions a buyer actually asks.
Is Colo Chennai a real facility?
No. It is a fictional brand built as a design showcase. The building, the plant list and every figure on this site are a worked example of how a colocation facility could be explained, not a description of somewhere you can buy space.
Do you hold a Tier rating or a certification?
Nothing on this site is a Tier rating, an audited certification or a service-level guarantee, and we do not display a certification mark. The assurance section lists the documents a real facility would produce, each labelled as still to be prepared.
Where do the numbers come from?
They are design intent, worked out once and reused everywhere. 192 racks across 2 halls at 160 standard and 32 high-density positions gives the 1,200 kW design IT load quoted in every drawing and summary on the site.
What does N+1 mean here?
One more unit than the design load needs. Three generators where two carry the facility, three UPS modules where two carry the IT load, three chillers where two meet the cooling load. It describes the equipment count, not an availability promise.
Is the rack brief a quote?
No. The configurator produces an illustrative footprint and a component summary you can take into a conversation. It has no prices, commits nothing and reserves nothing.
Come and check the drawings against the building.
A tour takes about ninety minutes: the yard, Level 0 plant, one hall and the meet-me room, with the design intent document open on the table afterwards.
- Where
- Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai 600058
- When
- Weekdays, by appointment
- Bring
- Photo identity for everyone in the party
- Takes
- About 90 minutes