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- Modular construction is transforming datacenter building, with components like walls, power rooms, and even entire data halls arriving prefabricated, similar to assembling a LEGO set.
- Labor shortages, especially among electricians, are a key driver for modularization; modular methods can reduce construction time by ~36% and costs by ~8%.
- Hyperscalers like AWS (Project Houdini) and Meta (tent structures) are pioneering modular designs, while colocation providers like Compass and QTS are industrializing repeatable modular kits.
- The modular market includes subsystem modularization (power blocks, cooling skids) and whole-facility modularization (containerized datacenters, prefab blocks), with over 80 vendors.