{"success":true,"message":"Page retrieved successfully","data":{"id":23,"parent_id":null,"template":"default","show_in_listing":false,"card_image":null,"card_excerpt":null,"title":"Colocation","slug":"colocation","hero_badge":"Data centre · Switzerland","hero_heading":"Carrier-neutral colocation planned in Walenstadt","hero_subheading":"BE BRAVE is expanding the Walenstadt site for scalable Swiss colocation and AI infrastructure. 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Availability, pricing and technical detail will be published once the project phase concludes.","content":null,"image":null,"cta_text":null,"cta_link":null,"sort_order":2,"data":{"badge_text":"Colocation offer","cards":[{"image":null,"title":"Planned immersion-cooling pods","body":"Pods for directly liquid-cooled IT systems are planned: servers are immersed in a non-conductive coolant so high power densities can run in a small footprint. The design and supplier are not yet fixed."},{"image":null,"title":"Planned private suites","body":"Physically separated, individually planned customer areas are envisaged, with their own access regime, scalable power supply and dedicated network paths."},{"image":null,"title":"Planned full racks","body":"Dedicated, lockable racks for server, storage, network and backup systems are envisaged, with redundant power supply and flexible connectivity."}],"image_caption":"Visualisation — Walenstadt project. Expansion in progress; 5 MW planned."},"is_active":true},{"id":138,"section_type":"colocation_infrastructure","heading":"Planned for availability, efficiency and scale","subheading":"The following describes the planned technical architecture of the expansion. It is the current project state, not confirmation of an existing operation.","content":null,"image":null,"cta_text":null,"cta_link":null,"sort_order":3,"data":{"badge_text":"Technical infrastructure","cards":[{"image":null,"title":"Power supply (planned)","bullets":["Planned connected load of 5 MW for the expansion","A/B supply for redundant customer feeds planned","Modular UPS systems planned","Standby power with a diesel reserve of up to 120 hours planned"]},{"image":null,"title":"Cooling (planned)","bullets":["Single-phase immersion cooling planned as the cooling concept","Energy-efficiency target: PUE 1.08","Redundant heat-rejection and supply systems planned","Up to 90% less cooling energy is an industry benchmark for immersion cooling, not a measured BE BRAVE site value"]},{"image":null,"title":"Colocation operations (planned)","bullets":["Full racks, immersion-cooling pods and private suites planned as offer categories","Flexible power and bandwidth models planned","Scalable expansion without changing site planned","Availability, pricing and dates will be published once the project concludes"]},{"image":null,"title":"Operations & security (planned)","bullets":["Design to Tier III requirements is planned; no Tier certification is claimed","Controlled physical access and continuous monitoring planned","Documented operating, maintenance and escalation processes planned","BE BRAVE’s information security management system is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022"]}],"image_caption":"Visualisation — Walenstadt project. Expansion in progress; 5 MW planned.","sources":[{"text":"Research review on immersion cooling: PUE of around 1.02–1.04 and 10–50% less total energy than air cooling; a large production single-phase deployment with 36% less total energy and a PUE of 1.07 (industry benchmark, not a measured value for the Walenstadt site)","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04257"},{"text":"Intel: immersion cooling with PUE values down to 1.03; cooling and power supply account for around 39% of consumption in conventional data centres","url":"https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/data-center/sustainability.html"},{"text":"Shell: up to 48% lower energy footprint in its own liquid/immersion cooling benchmarks; results depend on the specific site design","url":"https://www.shell.com/business-customers/industrial-lubricants-and-specialty-fluids-for-business/liquid-cooling-fluids.html"},{"text":"Submer: mPUE of 1.02, up to 95% lower cooling costs, around 50% less total power consumption and around 30% longer hardware life (manufacturer figures)","url":"https://submer.com/blog/immersion-cooling-for-high-performance-computing/"}]},"is_active":true},{"id":139,"section_type":"colocation_connectivity","heading":"Connectivity","subheading":"Carrier-neutral connectivity is planned. Specific carriers and routes will be published after contractual and technical confirmation.","content":null,"image":null,"cta_text":null,"cta_link":null,"sort_order":4,"data":{"tags":[]},"is_active":true},{"id":140,"section_type":"colocation_cta","heading":"Project information on the Walenstadt site","subheading":"Planning capacity for the coming years? Request the project documentation — we will inform you about timeline, offer categories and terms as soon as they are confirmed.","content":"<p></p>","image":"/storage/af3cff42-eb84-41de-a4a3-5baad45fecf0.jpg","cta_text":"Request project information","cta_link":"/en/contact","sort_order":5,"data":[],"is_active":true,"image_alt":"Secure Swiss AI infrastructure"}],"hidden_sections":[],"children":[],"created_at":"2026-08-01T10:22:57.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-08-13T10:27:08.000000Z"}}