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AI-ready data hall for a regional telecom — 400 kW, one BOM, three weeks

A telecom operator needed to build out a dedicated AI inference hall within an existing facility. No general contractor — the IT team needed a single hardware supplier for everything from racks to GPU servers. Haink supplied the complete bill of materials and delivered in three weeks.

400 kWTotal IT power
1242U racks deployed
24GPU inference servers
3 wkBOM to delivery

Complete bill of materials

Every line item supplied by Haink under a single purchase order. No coordination between multiple vendors.

Racks & Power
42U open-frame rack800mm wide, 1200mm deep, side panels, blanking kit, cable management12
Rack PDU — 3-phase 32AMetered, 24× C13 + 6× C19 per PDU, remote monitoring24
KVM over IP16-port, dual-rail LCD, crash-cart capability2
Cooling
Precision cooling unit10 kW floor-standing CRAC, direct expansion, N+1 configuration2
In-row blankingHot-aisle/cold-aisle containment panels, brush grommet cable entry1 set
Networking
100GbE top-of-rack switch48× 25G SFP28 + 8× 100G QSFP28 uplink, low-latency6
10GbE management switch48× 1G PoE+ for IPMI/BMC OOB management plane2
Fibre patch panel24-port LC duplex OM4 MPO breakout12
Compute
GPU inference server2U, 8× GPU slots, dual Xeon, 1.5 TB DDR5, 4× 7.68 TB NVMe, dual 100GbE24
Management server1U, single Xeon, 256 GB RAM, 4× 3.84 TB NVMe — cluster orchestration2
Shared NVMe storage array48× 15.36 TB NVMe, NVMe-oF target, 100GbE dual-port2

GPU model (H100 SXM5 / H200 / B200) specified per client BOM — Haink supplies across GPU generations based on availability and lead time at order date.

Power & cooling layout

Power distribution

  • Total IT load400 kW
  • Racks (12× 33 kW avg)396 kW
  • PDU feed — 3-phase 400V2× 250A circuits
  • UPS headroomN+1 per rack row
  • PUE target1.25

Cooling

  • Cooling capacity2× 10 kW CRAC
  • Airflow patternHot-aisle containment
  • Inlet temp target18–27°C (ASHRAE A2)
  • Humidity target20–80% RH, non-condensing
  • RedundancyN+1 active-standby

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