Debra Vieira is a senior electrical engineer at CH2M HILL with more than 20 years of experience for a variety of mission-critical, industrial, municipal, commercial, educational, and military clients, both nationally and internationally.
This article describes an economic modeling approach being used to help data center owners more wisely choose locations for new data center de-velopments and to forecast costs along with long-term economic returns on investment associated with those prospective sites.