Croatian Vertiv Factory is eyeing a huge opportunity for Data Centers | Rare Techy

December 1, 2022 – The Croatian factory Vertiv has a good chance to get a piece of the budget cake that will appear in the form of a significant increase in searches for data centers.

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Josipa Ban writes, 20 projects are currently being developed at the Croatian Vertiv factory in Rugvica. At the entrance to IMS (a factory for the production of modular solutions), Marko Skara, the factory manager, presented this 500 kilowatt power data center, built to order, which is being disassembled and prepared for delivery go up. France.

The second, smart mode, for a customer from Uzbekistan is currently being tested. This is followed by unpacking and shipping. In total, the management of the Croatian Vertiv factory explained that the construction of modular data centers, such as those being assembled in the factory in Rugvica, opened last April, six to just seven weeks.

It should be noted that this plant in the County of Zagreb is the base for turnkey solutions and a center of excellence for the whole world. “Engineers in Zagreb support engineering and development in other regions, in addition to EMEA and America and the Asia-Pacific region,” said Vedran Brzic, general manager of IMS Engineering.

This speaks volumes for the importance of the factory here in Croatia, one of Vertiv’s 23 production sites, its headquarters in the United States, and one of five in Europe. This one in Croatia specializes in building scalable data centers for the wider EMEA region.

In addition, the factory, the construction of 10 million euros, also produces gases (for cooling data centers) and electronic components, their best selling and most expensive product much to be proud of. The new building in Rugvica has 130 percent more interior space, which is not surprising when you consider the demand for data centers that are currently available.

“In just two years, business has doubled, and we expect demand to increase by 20 percent,” says Viktor Petik, a member of the Board of Directors of Vertiv Croatia, a company in founded in 2017, but its traditions in Croatia go back a long way. in addition, as he is the successor of Emerson Energy System, operating in Croatia since 2000.

Vertiv Croatia’s revenue growth, which increased by 66 percent in 2020 and 32 percent last year, reached 716 million kuna, which speaks volumes for the demand for data centers in the whole. Petik indicated that they expect to grow again this year, and this is also reflected in the number of employees, which increased from 280 at the end of 2020 to more than 500 now.

In addition, this year, they also opened an office in Rijeka after many discussions. Rijeka, according to Brzic, won for three reasons. “It’s a big city with a strong technical university and other skills that Vertiv needs. Rijeka also has the industrial culture, and it’s close to Zagreb,” explained Brzic, adding a hat These are very difficult solutions. “Modular data centers require the cooperation of many technical disciplines, such as architecture, construction, energy, mechanical engineering, ventilation, engineering,” he said.

“Due to the speed of digitalization, data centers are becoming more and more powerful, changes in trends are evident,” said Igor Grdic, who is in charge of operations and services for Croatia and the CEE country of the Croatian. Vertiv factory.

“The data centers are mainly located in major cities, such as the famous FLAP (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris) and Dublin. Recently, we have seen a shift of interests and capacity to the east. For the last three years, Poland, Warsaw, has an explosion in data centers with a capacity of more than 200 MW.

Israel is also following the Warsaw trends, but the question arises as to where the next expansion will go. Vertiv Croatia, of course, is pushing Croatia,” Grdic concluded.

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