At the campus scale, additional acreage is dedicated to substations, utility corridors, roads, yards, and setbacks. The result – a built environment so extensive that you need a car to get around it – prompts the question: Do operators truly need campuses so large? Modular Design at Campus ScaleRather than betting everything on a single monolithic structure, developers are building campuses composed of multiple, reasonably sized buildings. Likewise, these new data center campuses function as interconnected modules. “Power and water planning for multi-GW scale campuses is critical at the very earliest stages,” he said.