Digital Realty Rome
#MissionCriticalDesign The redevelopment of the former Acea management center in Trigoria, south of Rome, has transformed a 150,000 m² brownfield site into a high-tech data center campus by Digital Realty.The site includes public green spaces (~24,000 m²) and a pedestrian plaza (~14,000 m²), while maintaining original volume and minimizing environmental impact .Designed as a Tier IV facility to ensure maximum reliability and redundancy, the hub serves as a strategic digital interconnection node between Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia .It positions Rome as a leading digital hub in the Mediterranean, strengthening national and international connectivity infrastructure .Rethink Energy’s role focused on the construction design of the first module, handling detailed MEP systems to ensure compliance with critical standards and modular scalability.The module was engineered for high energy efficiency, resilience and future-proof performance, aligning with global data center best practices. Location:Italy Type:Hyperscale data center Client:Confidential Year:2024-2025 Surface in sqm:150.000
High Performance Computer (HPE)
#LiquidCooledSupercomputing Rethink Energy Srl provided the integrated mechanical, electrical, and special systems design for a new High Performance Computing (HPC) facility, developed to host a 1 MW IT power supercomputer. The system is based on HPE Direct Liquid Cooling technology, one of the most advanced solutions for high-efficiency thermal management in high-density environments. The project implemented a fanless direct-to-chip liquid cooling architecture, achieving up to a 90% reduction in cooling energy consumption compared to traditional air-based systems. This approach enabled higher rack density, improved space utilization, and significantly reduced the environmental footprint of the infrastructure, aligning with the latest sustainability standards for next-generation data centers. Location:Italy Type:Liquid cooling data center Client:Confidential Year:2024-2025 Surface in sqm:1.000
Genova Data Center
#Hyperscale Rethink Energy developed the preliminary MEP design study for the new digital infrastructure for an hyperscale data ceter in Genova.The project includes four independent modules, with a total installed power of approximately 20 MW, designed with a focus on scalability, reliability, and long-term sustainability.The study assessed strategies for cooling systems, electrical distribution, fire protection, and energy management, aligned with Tier III and Tier IV data center design standards.The goal was to ensure modular operability, optimized performance, and full system redundancy, within an architectural and environmental framework well integrated into the urban context of Genoa. Location:Italy Type:Hyperscale data center Client:Confidential Year:2023-2024 Surface in sqm:25.000
Geothermal green data center
#zeroemissions The town of Pomarance, in the province of Pisa, will host the first Green DataCenter made up of around 3.000 data servers with total “CO2=zero” impact. A worldpremiere.The Green Data Center will be located in Larderello, South_east of Pisa, an areaknown for its geothermal activity and already home od the oldest geothermal plantin the world.According to Rethink Energy’s project, all the electricity needed to power theservers and the primary and backup devices will come from renewable sources(geothermal), while the ample spaces within the building will be cooled usinghighenthalpy geothermal systems (characterised by temperatures above 150°C),guaranteeing a PUE ratio of less than 1.1.Rethink Energy conducted the energy, technical and financial feasibility studiesfor this project representing a true environmental revolution in the field of datacentres. Type:Retail/Expositions Place:Pomarance Client:Auchan-Ceetrus Year:2016 Surface in sqm:12000
Submersion cooling data center
#greenrevolution EU’s Joint Research Center (JRC) in Ispra, Northern Italy, is the third largest site ofthe European Commission, after Brussels and Luxembourg. Founded in 1960 as a nuclear research center, today it is considered as a leading research campus inEurope, with unique facilities and laboratories.The JRC has a submersion cooling data center with a maximum power of 1 MW, anew paradigm in the field. Compared to traditional cooling methods, which implyconsiderable costs in terms of energy, water and space, submersion cooling canbest address performance needs while significantly limiting the impact on theenvironment.The system designed by Rethink Energy uses geothermal energy with agroundwater circuit and one using water from the nearby lake. The energydissipated is used to heat a 12.000 sqm office building.This project represents a true environmental revolution in the field of data centres.Rethink Energy designed the mechanical, power, electrical and special installationsas well as being in charge of the MEP project management and works direction.The mix of solutions deployed include heart pumps, geothermal systems, lakewater, heat recovery and submersion cooling. Place:Ispra Type: CED industrial- infrastructure Client: JRC – Joint European Research Center / Unione Europea Year: 2019-2020 Surface in sqm:800