Data centre consulting services
Achieve sustainable growth at pace with a single, proven partner. We support data centre excellence by managing the full lifecycle of your facilities, from site selection, concept, and design through build to operations.
Future-ready data centres: built for today, designed for tomorrow
Driven by AI, cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC), mission-critical data centres are evolving at a rapid pace. For hyperscalers and colocation providers, sustainable growth is based on operational excellence. Achieving this requires secure grid access, optimised power distribution and cooling systems, and minimised water consumption. You need sites that stand up to due diligence, designs that are ready for liquid cooling and heat reuse, capacity to adapt to and leverage future regulatory and technology change, and a focus on minimised total cost of ownership without risking reliability.
At Ramboll, we work with you across the entire project lifecycle to increase capacity at speed, de-risk delivery, and deliver operational reliability. The outcome is a future ready data centre: efficient, resilient, welcomed by its community, and able to scale when demand shifts, so you can meet today’s needs and be ready for what’s next.
Electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 (IEnergy and AI , IEA 2025)
Ramboll’s proven data centre expertise
- : 15+ GW
of space designed and tested
- : $60Bn+
due diligence transactions
- : 1K+
studies completed
Data centre lifecycle management
Discover how we can transform your project outcomes and help you achieve consistent standards, faster schedules, fewer interfaces, and regulatory compliance.
Site selection
We help pinpoint the best-fit sites by identifying risks and constraints to site acquisition, program, budget, operations and potential capacity. We take a risk-based approach to site due diligence, factoring in power, environmental, zoning, connectivity, access, and sustainability impacts to support selection of the right site and maximise its value. In the due diligence we develop conceptual masterplans, considering different sustainability and resilience aspects which play a key role later in the design phase, e.g. water, energy supply and waste heat topics or biodiversity net gain.
Energy supply and efficiency
We specialise in designing energy systems tailored to project requirements, ensuring cost-effectiveness and resilience. Our expertise helps clients make informed decisions about energy sources through comprehensive comparative analyses, such as utility power versus on-site power, single type versus hybrid systems, and grid-connected versus islanded setups. Additionally, we provide in-depth assessments of energy efficiency measures, including district cooling systems and advanced heat reuse strategies. Our goal is to achieve low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) for your data centre, supporting your net-zero ambitions directly.
Learn moreEngineering design and permitting
Our teams design high-performance buildings and MEP with optimised energy planning, on and offsite renewables integration, and advanced water reuse to reduce embodied and operational carbon, improve PUE and WUE, boost resilience, and meet code and sustainability goals and commitments. Alongside the design we use our local knowledge of regulations, authorities and communities, to plan and execute a permitting strategy, including undertaking all the necessary surveys and modelling.
Confidence across your data centre lifecycle
Every project has its unique set of challenges. With Ramboll as your partner at each stage of the facility lifecycle you gain insight and clarity to make strategic decisions with confidence - whether you're planning a new site, optimising existing assets, or navigating acquisition and portfolio growth.
Engineering infrastructure for sustainable change
As demand for capacity increases, so does the responsibility. Scaling facilities brings a clear imperative: we need to balance capacity with climate, nature and community. You need reliable energy and uptime, smart power and water use, community acceptance, biodiversity gains and honest ESG reporting.
As your sustainability-first partner, we design responsibly from the beginning. That includes site selection, securing resilient and renewable energy, reusing district heat, and building future-ready infrastructure, all with a lower environmental impact.
Explore our data centre projects and solutions
Our data centre specialists work with clients to solve industry challenges and deliver projects around the world. Delve into our case studies to understand how our team reduces lifecycle costs and environmental impact.
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Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company. We have permanent offices in the Americas, the Asia Pacific and Europe.
Rick Einhorn
Data Centre Sector Leader
Energy
Greg Roberts
Data Centre Sector Leader
Environment & Health