en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, Argentina's Datawaves completed the manufacturing and on-site installation of a 12-cabinet modular data center, delivering the facility to an oil company in the Vaca Muerta region of Argentina. Spanish-language industry media BNamericas reported that the project's client is Argentina's Tecpetrol. The data center has completed the integration of the main module, power supply and distribution, and safety facilities, and is ready for the installation of client equipment and the connection of business systems.
The project adopted a modular construction approach, where the main structure and supporting systems of the data center were first integrated in a manufacturing environment before being transported to the project site for installation. Compared to building the computer room, power distribution, and fire protection systems separately on-site, this method allows some construction and equipment assembly work to be moved forward and reduces the amount of on-site work in remote industrial areas. Datawaves stated that the project has completed manufacturing and assembly but did not disclose the specific timeline from commencement to delivery.
The delivered facility can accommodate 12 server cabinets and is equipped with an uninterruptible power supply system, power distribution cabinets, automatic fire detection and suppression systems, and cable trays for equipment and communication cables. The relevant systems were fully integrated before delivery, providing the basic computer room conditions for the subsequent installation of servers, storage devices, network switching equipment, and other information systems.
The project is located in the Vaca Muerta oil and gas development zone, where industrial facilities are widely distributed, and some production and operation scenarios are far from large urban data centers. Deploying a modular data center near the industrial site can help enterprises build local data processing and information system hosting nodes. However, Datawaves has not specified whether the facility will be used for production control, video surveillance, enterprise management, or other business operations, so its actual application scope cannot be further inferred.
The focus of this delivery is not on building a new large-scale centralized cloud data center, but on establishing a small, independently operable digital infrastructure in an industrial operation area. The 12-cabinet scale can be configured with different types of computing, storage, and communication equipment according to client needs, while the UPS, power distribution, and automatic fire protection systems ensure the basic operation of the computer room. The project party did not disclose the total investment, computer room power, network bandwidth, cooling method, or number of servers, making it impossible to calculate the actual computing power scale at this stage.
Argentina's Datawaves is expanding its modular data center business to industries such as oil, telecommunications, and mining that require on-site computing facilities. The completion and delivery of the Vaca Muerta project indicates that the relevant facilities have moved from design and manufacturing to the client deployment phase, and also provides a project foundation for replicating similar computer rooms in industrial parks, mining areas, and remote operation sites in the future.
