Traditionally the commissioning process is presented as finite, defining beginning and end milestones. In hyperscale data center construction, however, practicalities and customer culture dictate that the commissioning is instead a continuous process improvement undertaking.
Hyperscale data center projects don’t have an “end.” When construction on one campus facility ends, another one has already begun. Data center project mobilizations overlap, so systems that are turned over to the customer will — because of the nature of design redundancy and hardening — be impacted by the next data center. Coordination between the staff of turned-over (operational) spaces and those who are commissioning the next data center is critical.