Schneider Electric and DataCentre UK have deployed two modular data centers for South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) in the UK.

SWFT has opted to use Schneider’s EcoStruxure data center offering, which features APC NetShelter racks, modular cooling units, APC power distribution units (PDUs), and Easy UPS systems.

Schneider Electric and DataCentre UK will design, build, and maintain two modular data centers for the trust under a £1.4 million ($1.84m) project to help improve the resiliency and efficiency of its IT systems.

Where the data centers are located has not been stated, but the trust spans four hospitals.

Schneider Electric offers several variations of modular data centers, from micro data centers to large-scale modular offerings. The scale of the deployment for the trust has not been shared.

“As an EcoXpert Partner to Schneider Electric, we have integrated Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Data Centre Solutions into the design. These solutions are pre-engineered, configurable, and scalable, encompassing racks, power, cooling, and management systems, aimed at maximising resiliency, sustainability, and efficiency,” said Paul Almond, MD, DataCentre UK. “Innovate and SWFT trusted our design and our selection of products and approved us to proceed with the build-out.”

“It was all built around sustainability,” added Mike Conlon, associate director of technology services at Innovate Healthcare Services. “Conservatively, we are now using 60 percent less electricity on the same amount of IT load, based on the previous server room implementation, and the system has been designed with an expected annualised PUE of 1.2.”

DataCentre UK specializes in the design, installation, and maintenance of data centers for its customers. The company is an “elite partner” of Schneider Electric.

The NHS has previously made an effort to migrate to the cloud where appropriate and decommissioned the data centers previously hosting the NHS Spine system. Individual NHS Trusts and hospitals continue to operate their own data centers. In August 2022, NHS Lincolnshire Trust launched a £1 million ($1.2m) data center in Lincolnshire, the UK.

Earlier this month, it was announced that waste heat from data centers in the Milton Keynes area would be used to heat the city’s hospital.