Electric Power Plant Design for Large Data Centers

A complete illustrated engineering reference for the design of a 160 MW on-site
power plant serving a hyperscale data center campus.

This book presents a fully integrated design package covering 2N generation
redundancy with six 35 MW gas turbines, twenty 10 MW reciprocating engines, a
100 MW / 400 MWh battery energy storage system, dual 230 kV utility
interconnections, and a 99.999% availability target.

Eleven illustrated chapters guide the reader through every engineering
discipline in the project lifecycle:

• Chapter 1 — Project Overview & Design Basis: site load profile, design
criteria, regulatory framework, and preliminary scoping.

• Chapter 2 — Master Site Planning: campus layout, fuel storage, transmission
corridors, and infrastructure sequencing.

• Chapter 3 — Power Generation Systems: gas turbine selection, combined-heat-
and-power integration, reciprocating engine packages, and paralleling schemes.

• Chapter 4 — Electrical Distribution: 230 kV switchyard, 33 kV collector
system, transformer sizing, protection coordination, and cable routing.

• Chapter 5 — UPS & Backup Generation: battery energy storage architecture,
static UPS design, diesel standby generation, and transfer switching.

• Chapter 6 — Control Systems & SCADA: distributed control architecture,
protection relay settings, alarm philosophy, and cybersecurity requirements.

• Chapter 7 — Mechanical & Thermal Integration: cooling water systems, waste-
heat recovery, fuel gas conditioning, and HVAC for auxiliary buildings.

• Chapter 8 — Civil & Structural Design: foundation engineering, structural
steel design, seismic analysis, drainage, and paving.

• Chapter 9 — Environmental & Regulatory Compliance: air permitting, noise
assessment, stormwater management, and environmental monitoring.

• Chapter 10 — Reliability Engineering & Commissioning: availability modelling,
factory acceptance testing, site commissioning, and performance testing.

• Chapter 11 — Design Deliverables & Drawing Packages: drawing register,
specification structure, and design governance.

Three appendices round out the package: Appendix A lists key applicable
standards (IEEE, IEC, NFPA, NERC, ISO); Appendix B provides a 60-term
technical glossary; and Appendix C reproduces 70 CADD-quality engineering
drawings spanning single-line diagrams, site plans, UPS room layouts, equipment
arrangements, protection schemes, grounding systems, and civil details.

The book contains over 100 full-colour technical illustration plates — each
optimised for on-screen reading — making it an essential reference for power
engineers, data center infrastructure designers, project managers, and students
preparing for work in the hyperscale computing sector.