Estimation of a possibility to transform a technological complex of the liquidated coal mine into the data processing center (data-center)

Abstract

Today, in order to develop a contemporary society, assimilation of the necessary knowledge and organization of information storage, processing and use are the vital tasks. For this purpose, information data centers are being created, which ensure the realization of these tasks at all levels - from national to individual. Accordingly, location, volume and operation speed of the data centers are changing. Any data center is a fairly costly enterprise, building it "from scratch" requires significant material investments and human resources. Therefore, today researches are aimed at reusing areas and buildings of the out-of-date enterprises and organizations with the exhausted resources, but which, due to the acceptable rate of wear and tear, can be transformed into the innovative enterprises. In Ukraine, it is planned to close a number of coal mines, and, as a result, a significant number of industrial areas suitable for the renovation use will be vacated. Organization of a data center based on the existing facilities of the liquidated coal mine is quite possible and advisable; information about this is given in the article. There are many examples (for example, the Europe's largest data center Lefdal Mine Datacenter in Norway) of the data centers created on the basis of the liquidated industrial enterprises which, after their appropriate adaptation and modification, meet all requirements of the international standard ANSI/TIA/EIA-942. In Ukraine, there are also similar projects (for example, the United DC data center), which can be effectively introduced into the infrastructure of any industrial enterprise to be liquidated. The authors of this article have proven that modern coal mines (in particular, their surface technological complex) are essentially suitable for transformation into a data center due to the existing engineering and transport infrastructure, their favorable location and the required protection. The authors also provide information about the structure of the data center, audit of the surface complex in order to determine "bottlenecks" (non-compliance with the requirements of the ANS/TIA/EIA-942 standard), prerequisites for creating a data center on its basis, principles of calculating degree of depreciation of buildings and areas required for data center layout.