Efficient cooling is essential for optimal data center performance. Accurate Metal Fabricating specializes in creating custom data center racks using our high-volume metal fabrication capabilities and perforated metal manufacturing. These racks enhance airflow and temperature management for critical equipment.
The Importance of Perforated Metal in Data Center Racks
Perforated metal is an ideal material for data center racks due to its numerous benefits:
- Superior Ventilation: The many holes in perforated metal sheets enable efficient airflow, drawing heat away from servers and other components. This passive cooling reduces strain on HVAC systems, leading to lower energy consumption and costs.
- Customization Options: Perforated metal offers flexibility in design. We can tailor hole sizes, patterns, and panel configurations to meet your ventilation needs.
- Durability and Lightweight: Perforated metal is strong enough to handle the weight of equipment while remaining lightweight for easy installation and handling.
Not only that, but for Bitcoin mining farms and data centers in particular, it's essential that the materials are custom to your needs rather than those of others. In addition, you need someone who can handle the capacity required by these new data farms. Accurate does all that. You work with one project manager who coordinates everything between our perforated metal division and our metal fab shop. We can accommodate weekly check-in calls to keep you abreast of your deliveries.
Accurate Metal Fabricating: Your Partner in Data Center Solutions
Accurate Metal Fabricating (AMF) offers a complete range of metal fabrication services for custom data center racks:
- Precision Perforation: We leverage our sister company, Accurate Perforating, which uses advanced perforating techniques to create precise hole patterns in various materials. These metal types include common ones such as carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum, but we can even perforate copper and brass. Our extensive tooling library and custom pattern capabilities ensure we can meet your exact specifications and deliver on your schedule, bringing your data centers online faster than before.
- Expert Fabrication: Our skilled team utilizes a wide range of equipment, including laser cutters, press brakes, and welding systems (MIG, TIG, spot, robotic), to fabricate sheet metal into custom racks, enclosures, shelves, and other components.
- Comprehensive Finishing: We provide various finishing options, including in-house powder coating, to protect your racks from corrosion and enhance their appearance.
- Engineering Support: Our engineering team works with you to design and optimize data center rack solutions that meet your unique requirements. They are also available for in-person visits to ensure everything meets your needs. We can help you determine your application's optimal hole patterns and airflow and remove costs from the equation.
- Prototyping: We know your custom data center racks need to be just right, so we will prototype them for you until you are happy with the outcome. Once we nail down the design, we take it into full-scale production. This provides the desired product and reduces your risk, ensuring each rack is on point.
Data Center Rack FAQs
What makes Accurate’s data center racks custom?
We don’t sell standard racks. Our team fabricates each unit to OEM drawings or integrator specifications—perfect fit, every time.
What fabrication services do you offer?
We handle every stage in-house — sheet metal forming, laser cutting, welding (MIG, TIG, robotic), powder coating, prototyping, and fulfillment.
Do you help improve rack designs?
Yes! Our value engineering adds cost-effective suggestions—such as reducing material or simplifying bend patterns—to help you save without compromising performance.
Where are your racks made, and where do you serve?
All racks are fabricated in Chicago, Illinois. From here, we ship to data centers, OEMs, and integrators across the United States.
Who should work with Accurate Metal Fabricating?
We partner with OEMs, integrators, and data center equipment manufacturers who need high-quality, production-ready rack solutions optimized for cost, airflow, and manufacturability.
Work With The Best
Contact Accurate Metal Fabricating today to discuss your custom data center rack needs. Our team will work with you to develop a solution that maximizes cooling efficiency, optimizes space utilization, and enhances your data center's performance.