A digital twin is a working model of a real asset, connected to it by data. This one is a real data centre in Almaty: walk the building, open the engineering layers and see what the operator sees.
Geometry follows the as-built drawings. Sensor values in the public model are demonstration data; live telemetry is connected within a project.
KT Cloud Lab · AlmatyDemonstration data
Open the 3D model
Rotate, zoom, walk through the rooms, switch the layers.
Not a roadmap — frames captured from the live model.
Cutaway viewTwenty-six rooms from the as-built plan, the facade from site photographs, a first-person walk-through with real walls and doors.
Power chain layerPower chain, cooling, air and heat map, network, gas suppression — layers over one geometry, so the operator and the investor look at the same object.
Sensors and racksTwenty-four temperature and humidity points in the hall, racks coloured by temperature, a report for every rack and the operator's Zabbix event log.
The model opens with a scrolled story: the site, the building, power, cooling and the hall — each chapter with its figure.
The data-centre building in the Park of Innovative Technologies, Alatau. Geometry follows the working drawings; inside are 84 racks in seven rows, in-row cooling, power from two 10 kV feeders with a standby generator, and the operator's Zabbix events.
The depth of each step depends on the object; the order does not change.
Which data already exists, at what interval, in what systems; where the losses are; whether a model is justified at all.
Physics, statistics or a combination — chosen by the question the object has to answer.
A data link from sensors, metering and control systems, with checks on completeness and drift.
Scenario runs, alerts and handover: the customer's team operates the model without the contractor.
A static representation. Data is transferred by hand; changes on either side do not propagate.
A one-way link. The object feeds the model automatically, but the model does not act back.
A two-way link. The model receives live telemetry and returns setpoints, schedules and warnings to the operating system.
Airflow and heat simulation, placement of high-density racks, failure scenarios for cooling and power.
Equipment condition, load modes, maintenance planning by actual wear instead of a fixed calendar.
Pumping stations, compressors and process lines: failure prediction and selection of an operating mode.
Water, heat and lighting: locating losses and setting the order of replacement.
ISO 23247, Digital Twin Framework for Manufacturing (2021), defines the reference architecture, the digital representation of physical elements and the rules of information exchange. Part 6, on composing several twins into one system, was published in 2026.
Tell us about the object and the data it already produces. We answer in writing whether a twin is justified and what the first stage would cost.
