Driving efficiency, sustainability, and
innovation across the data center
facility lifecycle
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company, delivering expertise and sustainable solutions.
Founded in Denmark in 1945, Ramboll today operates across 35 countries and employs more than 18,000 experts. We combine deep local insight and experience with a global knowledge base to create sustainable societies and drive positive change for our clients.
Ramboll offers global expertise in creating strategic solutions for data centres that support resilience, efficiency, and a circular economy, while delivering energy efficiency, climate benefits, and costs savings. Our multidisciplinary approach allows us to assist clients in achieving ambitious sustainability goals.
As demand for data continues to grow, the industry faces a crucial question: how can we reduce environmental impact without compromising performance?
Ramboll’s first-of-its-kind paper addresses each aspect of these concerns directly, providing a holistic, detailed, and multi-pronged approach to reducing the climate impact of data centers
Energy is at the core of sustainable data centre development. At Ramboll, we leverage integrated renewable energy systems such as solar, wind, green hydrogen, and bioenergy solutions—to power next-generation data centres with reduced emissions. Our approach integrates energy generation with advanced waste heat recovery and integration, and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) to drive holistic decarbonisation and energy optimization.
From feasibility and concept design to implementation and compliance, we help clients transition from traditional grids to a low-carbon energy system. Our multidisciplinary technical experts deliver tailored, end-to-end solutions that align with your business goals, ESG commitments, and growth strategy—enabling sustainable, optimised, future-ready operations
Learn how you can tap into renewable energy for your data centre
Water is a critical utility in sustainable data centre development. At Ramboll, we apply a systems-thinking approach to manage water across the entire project life cycle — from master planning and water infrastructure due dilliance to design and construction to resilient operations and compliance support.
Our multidisciplinary expertise enables tailored solutions that align with your business goals and ESG commitments. Every project is a partnership: we offer dedicated service teams, deep sector experience, and access to our full technical capabilities to deliver resilient, efficient, and future-ready data centres.
Ramboll delivers advanced MEP design solutions for data centers across APAC, supporting hyperscale, colocation, modular, and edge deployments. Our engineers focus on high-efficiency, resilient systems tailored to regional climate conditions, utility availability, and client uptime requirements. From power distribution and cooling strategies to fire protection and controls integration.
In parallel, our civil and structural engineering teams provide the foundational infrastructure essential for data center success. Together with MEP and architectural disciplines, our integrated approach enables seamless, scalable design from concept to construction overview.
Following the acquisition of i3 Solutions Group, we’ve enhanced our capabilities in mission-critical systems engineering, allowing us to deliver comprehensive, future-ready data center designs that support AI workloads, sustainability goals, and evolving operational needs.
Based on our decades of understanding of regulatory requirements across geographies, we assist clients in strategic decision making throughout a data centres lifecycle.
Our agile, client focused approach is tailored to each project's needs to assure functionality, flexibility, and efficiency. Whether needing to deliver operational or energy efficiencies, or simply respond to regulatory changes, we can help your new or existing build.
Industry insights from our global and local data centre experts. Read how we meet the needs of client and their markets with unique expertise.
Client: Fjernvarme Fyn
Location: Odense, Denmark
Completion: 2019
Service provided: Fjernvarme Fyn appointed Ramboll as Owner’s Engineer to design the heat pump installation and energy centre, handle related tender processes and manage construction and building contract work. Furthermore, Ramboll developed the operation strategy for the surplus heat recovery system and executed design and strength calculations of the chilled water pipe network.
Client: Confidential
Location: -
Completion: Ongoing
Service provided: Ramboll leads the MEP design of a 7-storey greenfield data centre building within a 2-building data centre campus. The design enables concurrent maintainable, energy efficient and highly scalable build for future expansion. The development obtained BCA-IMDA Green Mark for New Data Centre 2019 Platinum rating.
Client: DigitalBridge
Location: Global
Completion: 2025
Service provided: Ramboll's support included extensive ESG evaluations, which involved detailed reviews of applicable regulatory compliance, environmental (pollution) liabilities, and ESG-related risks and opportunities, to an agreed materiality threshold. EHS assessments were conducted to identify the target’s compliance status with applicable environmental, health and safety regulations and standards.
Client: Aspire Development Management, Columbia Threadneedle
Location: Langley, UK
Completion: 2020
Service provided: Ramboll was engaged to assist with an optioneering study and our environmental input was key to shaping the parameters of the proposed redevelopment. Our multidisciplinary approach enabled iterative design development, with engineering solutions and assumptions on options feeding directly into environmental assessments.
Client: Confidential
Location: Global
Completion: -
Service provided: Ramboll was selected to perform a technical due diligence review for 28 data centre properties across the world as part of a private equity firm's acquisition process. This review ensured the technical specification in the transaction were validated, supporting a successful acquisition and future facility optimisation.
Client: Confidential
Location: -
Completion: 2026
Service provided: Ramboll was tasked to provide full civil, structural and geotechnical engineering consultancy services on DC1 and DC2 part of total 5 phases hyperscale DC with combined IT capacity of more than 110MW.
Client: Confidential
Location: Singapore
Completion: 2016 (Phase 1)
Service provided: Ramboll was engaged to provide MEP consultancy for a 5 storey purpose-built data centre building of 20,000 sqm. The implemented 4×22kV utility system successfully supports a capacity of 30 MWA, ensuring efficient power distribution, while the integrated IT security infrastructure further enhances system resilience with a dedicated 17 MW backup.
Client: Confidential
Location: Singapore
Completion: 2019
Service provided: Ramboll led a multi-disciplinary consultant team of architects, civil & structure and cost consultants for the design of a 5 storey greenfield data centre of GFA 17,000 sqm with IT capacity of ~18MW. The development obtained Uptime Tier III Certification of Design Documentation (TCDD) and BCA Green Mark Non-Residential Building and New Data Center Platinum Rating certified.
Client: Confidential
Location: Indonesia
Completion: 2023
Service provided: Ramboll led a multi-disciplinary consultant team of Singapore and Indonesia architects, Civil & structure consultants, and Indonesia MEP consultant for the design of a 5 storey greenfield data centre in Cikarang, Indonesia. The development obtained BCA-IMDA Green Mark for New Data Center 2019 Platinum Rating and TIA-942B Rated 3 Design Certification (DCDV).
Combining our global expertise and local insights, we offer our clients the best support to successfully navigate their data centre projects in Asia Pacific.
Please reach out to our expert team to discuss how Ramboll can help you.
Every data centre journey is unique and so are its challenges. Whether you’re planning a new site, optimising existing assets, or navigating acquisition and portfolio growth, our experts are here to help.
Contact us and together we can explore how Ramboll’s experience and insights can bring impactful and lasting solutions to your challenges.
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