Futureproof Your Data Center Operations
Today’s data centers must be flexible, scalable, and adaptable in order to bring new technologies and applications to life. Responding quickly to changing demands and emerging innovation can’t come as a sacrifice of efficiency, uptime, or security. To handle more automation, rising AI workloads, massive amounts of data, higher energy requirements, and much more, these unfailing workhorses have no choice but to move away from outdated operational approaches.
Design for Flexibility
Data centers are the enablers of our progressively more data-hungry world. If these mission-critical spaces aren’t optimized for real-time performance, then the result is service outages, lost productivity, higher costs, and missed opportunities.
Pressure Is Rising for Data Providers
• As the economy continues to digitize everything from healthcare to education, data center demand is accelerating, which increases storage and compute requirements.
• To optimize square footage and control operating costs, operators need to support more connectivity and density in less space.
• Downtime can be catastrophic, and data centers must be designed for redundancy wherever possible.
• Thermal management needs to be balanced with space constraints and sustainable operations.
What Makes 80/20 Different?
Start Designing for Free
A free standalone software for all experience levels to design with 80/20 products. Easily switch between profiles, fasteners, and more and generate detailed BOMs & drawings.
From Concept to Completion
Our skilled technicians understand data center design. Through 80/20’s free design assistance services, they’re always available to make suggestions to help you optimize and futureproof your space.
Let Us Build It For You
Construct your framing system on your own or ask for help. You decide whether you want us to assemble it onsite for you or pack and ship your components to make DIY assembly easy for your own team to handle.
Custom to Your Needs
Whether you need one part or 1,000 (or more), you never have to order in certain quantities or meet a minimum requirement before you can place your order.
Need Local Support?
Take advantage of 80/20 services through our network of distribution partners near you. Select from design assistance, on-site visits and ongoing support.
Structural Systems to Support Data Center Services
Framing systems and supporting accessories can play a key role in supporting and optimizing data center operations while reducing time to market, costs, and interruptions. By creating environments that align with what your users demand—and what your data center employees need—you can be confident that you can meet evolving requirements.
Finding the Right T-Slot Framing System
Select structural framing systems and components that free you to design your data center in whatever way works best, time and time again.
Scale on the Fly
As operational demands change, your data center layout must keep up. Structural systems that are easy to reconfigure and repurpose allow you to design spaces and supports for designs that suit the way you want to operate today, tomorrow, and beyond.
Less Labor Time
Data center operators are experts at maintaining and monitoring data center systems. Let them do what they do best by using framing systems that are fast and easy to assemble and require few tools. Build framework for a partition or an aisle containment system and they should be able to do so quickly without lots of training.
More Uptime
People depend on your data center operations. Equipment damage can lead to unplanned downtime, where even short outages have lasting implications. To protect availability, framing systems must be strong, durable, and safe to use around electronic equipment.
Global AI infrastructure spending—including data centers—is expected to reach $422.55 billion by 2029.
How 80/20 Supports Data Center Design & Flexibility
If you can imagine it, then we can help you make it happen. From resilient support structures to containment doors and walls, our T-slot aluminum profiles let you build from a collection of parts to create precisely what you need.
Design for Flexibility
As your data center layout changes, so can your framing systems. Choose from more than 120 profile shapes, which range from light to heavy-duty, so you can do anything—from building your own server racks to designing a custom enclosure to control airflow. As you add more racks or expand your containment system, then you can easily adjust your framework to match.
Build with Confidence
Because 80/20’s T-slot extrusions are made of aluminum, you don’t have to worry about corrosion, magnetic charge, or combustion—which can be extremely detrimental to data center operations. Our framing system components will never chip, oxidize, fade, or rust, so they don’t require ongoing maintenance.