$ render --3d --from orbit --to rack

3D videos, from the planet to the rack

We now make 3D videos of data centres and the infrastructure around them: a fly-in from orbit to a site, the network between sites drawn across the globe, and the data hall itself with power, cooling, water and network failures played out in 3D. They are rendered from a data centre simulator, so every number on screen is the simulator's estimate, and labelled that way.

$ ls ./earth

The Earth, and the network between your sites

A fly-in over a region at night The same camera move over South-East Asia: any point on Earth can be the destination.

Sites and the links between them An estate of sites with the links between them drawn across the globe.

A link between two sites is cut One link is cut, and the simulator names the sites left isolated because nothing else connects them.

$ ls ./data-hall

Inside the data hall, when something fails

A UPS fails UPS-A fails in the data hall: which devices lose power, which carry on with one feed, and which PDU is overloaded.

A cooling unit stops at peak load One cooling unit stops at peak load, and the heat map shows how far the rack inlets climb, and when.

A chilled-water leak A chilled-water leak in the hall, with the litres released before the pipe is isolated.

A spine switch fails A spine switch fails: how many devices lose every network path, and how many stay up on a backup link.

Demo hall and demo data. The failure banners are the simulator's estimates, marked simulated in the corner of each banner.

$ cat layers.tsv

What a 3D data centre video can show

Layer	What the viewer sees	The what-if it can play out
Earth and network	Sites on the globe and the links between them	A link or a landing point is lost: which sites are isolated
Floor	Rooms, aisles and racks, with space and power used	Will the new racks fit?
Power	Load on each rack and a one-line diagram of the feeds	A UPS or a feed fails: what goes dark, what runs on one feed
Air	Rack inlet temperatures, a heat map, airflow	A cooling unit or chiller stops: how long until inlets get too hot
Water	Coolant temperature, pipes and flow	A cooling distribution unit stops, or a pipe leaks
Fire	Zones, detectors and suppression	From smoke to alert, alarm and release
Network and cabling	Traffic along the cables, the topology, every cable route	A switch, link or cable fails: who loses every path

$ grep -l 3d buyers.txt

Who it is for

Data centre operators and colocation providers explaining resilience to customers who will never walk the hall.
Vendors of power, cooling, DCIM, network and backup products showing the failure their product is there for.
Infrastructure news and analysis: an outage, a cable cut or a new campus, shown where it happened. Our infrastructure vendors page covers the walkthrough side.
Sales and partner teams who need a site tour without a site visit.

$ diff rendered recorded

What it is, and what it is not

A 3D video is a designed video rendered from a model. It is not footage of your facility, and it is not a verified walkthrough. The model comes from a spreadsheet of rooms, racks, power, cooling and network, or from a representative demo hall when there is no data to share. The what-if numbers are estimates on that model, not measurements, and we never present them as a forecast for your site.

Its strength is showing what no camera can: the whole planet, the inside of a cooling loop, the path a failure takes through the power chain. When the video has to prove that your software does a job, pair it with a recording of the real product. Our note on video styles for marketing sets 3D among the other styles.

$ cat how-3d.md

How a 3D video is made

Tell us what to show: a site, a route between sites, or a failure, and send a rack, power and network list if you have one.
We build the model and pick the camera path: down from orbit, across the globe, or inside the hall.
We play out the what-ifs you choose and render them at 1080p, landscape or vertical.
You get the MP4 with captions and narration in the languages you need.

$ cat faq.txt

Questions about 3D data centre videos

Can you make a 3D video of our own data centre?

Yes. The model is built from a spreadsheet of rooms, racks, power, cooling and network, the same kind of list a DCIM export or an asset register holds. Without data to share, we use a representative demo hall and say so in the video.

Are the numbers in the failure videos real?

They are the simulator's estimates on the model, labelled as simulated on screen. They show how a failure spreads, not a measurement or a forecast for your site.

Can you show a subsea cable cut or an outage on the globe?

Yes. The globe can show sites, the links between them and what is isolated when a link or a landing point is lost. Public cable routes and well-known sites can be drawn for a news-style clip, always labelled as a what-if.

Is a 3D video a verified walkthrough?

No. A 3D video is a designed video rendered from a model. A verified walkthrough is a recording of your real product doing a real task, checked against the product's own evidence. When a video has to prove that your software works, we make that one too.

Which formats do you deliver?

MP4 at 1080p, landscape 16:9 for YouTube and websites or vertical 9:16 for Shorts and Reels, with captions and narration in the languages you ask for.

Earth imagery: NASA. Rendered with DC Sim, a data centre simulator.

Tell us the site, the route or the failure you want to show. The first sample is free.

$ get-sample →