Data Centers & Switch Centers
The world runs on data, so the infrastructure behind it should be fast, resilient and ready to scale. As demand for digital capacity, power and uptime grows, data centers and switch centers have become critical enablers of global connectivity, commerce and operational continuity.
How Data Centers Are Shaping the Future
The performance, scalability and access to power required by data centers shape how industries grow, compete and respond in an always-on world. As global demand for digital infrastructure intensifies — driven by artificial intelligence, cloud computing and high-performance workloads — data centers are no longer just support systems. They’re strategic assets at the core of industrial growth, resilience and innovation.
Because these facilities are deeply connected to the communities they serve, our team works with clients to deliver infrastructure that supports both performance and long-term sustainability, where we focus on balancing resilience with regional energy strategies, environmental responsibility and local impact.
The Burns & McDonnell Advantage
Backed by proven experience and cross-market knowledge, we move projects forward faster by addressing critical energy availability and site selection challenges and optimizing risk, budget and schedule for our clients.
Our proven experience and deep cross-market knowledge accelerate time-to-market, with an innate focus on addressing critical energy availability and site selection challenges and optimizing risk, budget and schedule for our clients.
Through fast-track project delivery and turnkey design-build solutions, our multidisciplinary teams can provide clients with full data center consulting strategies worldwide. With planners, architects, engineers and construction professionals all under one roof, we deliver tailored solutions that transform data center projects across the entire lifecycle, accelerating infrastructure delivery and unlocking your facility's full potential.
Data Center Solutions That Adapt to the Demands of the AI Economy
We’ve adapted our data center design and construction methodologies to meet the demands of artificial intelligence and other compute-intensive workloads, delivering more flexible, scalable engineering solutions that account for evolving equipment, heat loads and energy profiles. Our teams have extensive experience implementing advanced thermal management systems, including liquid cooling, to support high-performance environments while improving energy efficiency and reducing long-term operational costs. Additionally, our support extends to helping clients reduce water use and improve system-wide efficiency with solutions tailored to the facility’s location, climate and community priorities. Whether through system optimization, equipment selection or resource-conscious infrastructure design and construction, the focus is on meeting sustainability goals while reducing environmental impact.
Our mission-critical team works with facility and network operators to meet reliability and maintainability expectations for critical facilities. Our portfolio includes Tier 3 facilities, each designed with no single point of failure and to meet TIA-942 standards for the telecommunications and data management industries. When even seconds of downtime mean significant financial loss, such facilities are engineered to be fault-, maintenance- and change-tolerant, built to perform through environmental extremes, equipment failures and human error.
As part of our integrated delivery approach, we can help you address the most pressing power-related hurdles limiting growth. Our team has specialized experience in on-site power generation, renewable energy and bridging power solutions, utility interconnection, long-lead equipment procurement, phased engineer-procure-construct (EPC) substation delivery aligned with load ramping, and long-term asset monitoring and maintenance.
For mission-critical facilities, our services span site selection, planning and development all the way through design and construction. Such facilities include data centers and their command suites, control rooms, operations centers and administrative facilities serving center owners and operators, commercial enterprises, and government and federal agencies, including the Department of Defense.
Additional project work includes secure servers, communications and LAN rooms; information network operations centers; classified meeting and video teleconferences areas; sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIFs); and secured facility entrances and turnstiles.
