The customised, portable and flexible prefabricated data centre will provide Sagrada Família with the IT capacity needed to support the UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, recently announced the completion of Sagrada Família’s first state-of-the-art customised prefabricated data centre.

As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most visited tourist attraction in Barcelona, Spain, Sagrada Família was in need of a portable solution that would upgrade its small server room to a more robust data centre, allowing site operators to better manage the church’s security and effectively control the millions of visitors that come to the site each year during construction.

“Today, there is no longer a one size fits all approach to data centre design and build. For Sagrada Família, it was clear that a flexible and portable, yet powerful facility was needed to meet the unique demands of their growing business,” said Kevin Brown, Vice President, Global Data Centre Strategy and Technology, Schneider Electric. “Schneider Electric is privileged to work with this UNESCO World Heritage Site to deliver a prefabricated data centre solution that not only fits within the complex environment around the Sagrada Família, but delivers the security, availability, reliability and agility needed to support this popular attraction during and after construction.”

Sagrada Família continues a long history of transformation through an ongoing, complex, construction project, therefore building a new data centre within the building was not an option. Sagrada Famílianeeded a resilient and flexible data centre that can respond to the continually evolving construction process, while also maintaining a high level of security and protection. Additionally, because the data centre construction could not happen on site in the construction zone, portability was key in enabling Sagrada Família to easily move the data centre to accommodate changes in the construction zones over time.