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AI drafting for data centers

AI Drafting for Data Center Projects

A data center campus is one data hall designed carefully and then drawn four, eight, or 16 times, with the A and B power paths, the busway, and the cooling units repeated hall after hall. Nomic drafts the white space, power distribution, and cooling layouts in CAD from your engineer's design, keeps the redundancy topology exactly as the engineer drew it, and checks every hall against the design and the code before review.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • The engineer's basis of design and typical hall one-line
  • Architectural shell and rack layout
  • Busway, PDU, UPS, and cooling unit cutsheets
  • The owner or tenant naming convention and CAD standards

Nomic hands back

  • White space power and cooling plans for every data hall as DWG files
  • One-line diagrams drafted from the engineer's design
  • Busway, PDU, and cooling unit schedules in Excel and on the sheet
  • A rack-by-rack source trace with mismatches listed
1234567ABCDATA HALL101DATA HALL102DATA HALL103DATA HALL104DATA HALL105ELECTRICAL106ELECTRICAL107ELECTRICAL108ELECTRICAL109ELECTRICAL110ELECTRICAL111STAIRS2LP-2A-1LP-2A-3LP-2A-5LP-2A-7LP-2A-9LP-2A-11LP-2A-13LP-2A-15LP-2A-17LP-2A-19LP-2A-21LP-2A27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"94'-8"1APOWER PLANSCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"N1234CONSULTING ENGINEERSREVISIONS1ISSUED FOR REVIEWPROJECTASHBURN DC-3SCALE1/8" = 1'-0"DATE04/22/2026KEY PLANSHEET TITLEPOWER PLANSHEET NUMBERE-101

On the sheet

Power Plan, annotated

An electrical power plan drawn over the architectural background, with receptacles circuited back to the panel.

  1. 1Duplex receptacle on the wall it serves
  2. 2Branch circuit wiring between devices
  3. 3Homerun arrow with panel and circuit number
  4. 4Panelboard the circuits return to

The problem

One data hall, drawn again for every building

The engineering in a data hall is front-loaded: the redundancy topology, the UPS blocks, the busway ratings, and the cooling strategy get decided once, but the drafting repeats. Every hall needs rack rows, containment, overhead busway with tap-off boxes on both the A and B side, PDU or remote power panel locations, CRAHs or fan walls, and leak detection, and every hall has to match its one-line, so a tenant who reads 2N in the basis of design finds two independent paths to every rack on the drawings.

The errors are small and expensive. A tap-off box fed from the wrong busway puts both cords of a rack on the same UPS. A hall copied from Building 1 carries Building 1 panel names into Building 2. A late change to rack density means every busway rating, PDU count, and cooling unit count on every hall sheet has to move together, usually in the week the tenant wants the issue.

01 / White space

Data halls laid out from one design, repeated exactly

Send the engineer's typical hall design, the architectural shell, and the rack layout. Nomic draws the white space power plan with rack rows, containment, busway runs, and tap-off boxes, then repeats the hall across the building with panel and busway names renumbered for each hall.

  • Overhead busway and tap-off boxes on the A and B sides
  • PDU and remote power panel locations from the design
  • Equipment names renumbered hall by hall from the naming convention
02 / One-lines

Redundancy drawn the way the engineer designed it

Nomic drafts the one-line from the engineer's sketch or markup, then traces every rack back to its sources. The engineer picks the topology, whether 2N, distributed redundant, or block redundant, and Nomic checks that the plans, the one-line, and the schedules agree with the engineer's choice.

  • Each rack traced to two independent UPS paths
  • Busway and PDU ratings matched to the one-line
  • Panel names consistent across plans, one-line, and schedules
03 / Cooling

Cooling equipment placed and scheduled per hall

Nomic lays out the CRAH units, fan walls, or coolant distribution units from the mechanical design, draws the chilled water piping in the gallery, and schedules the units per hall. Counts are checked against the redundancy the mechanical engineer set, so an N+1 hall shows the extra unit.

  • CRAH, fan wall, or CDU layouts with service clearances
  • Chilled water piping and leak detection in the gallery
  • Unit schedules in Excel and on the sheet

Checked against

The code and documents behind every sheet

Name the editions the project is designed to and Nomic checks its own drawing against them before handing it back. Your engineer or architect of record makes the final call and stamps the set.

  • NEC (NFPA 70), including Article 645 where the design uses it
  • NFPA 75 protection of IT equipment
  • ANSI/TIA-942
  • ASHRAE thermal guidelines for data processing environments
  • The engineer's basis of design
  • Owner or tenant design standards

How it works

From a sentence to a stamped set

  1. Step 1

    Ask for the drawing

    Say what the sheet needs to show and attach the backgrounds, markups, cutsheets, or photos. A sentence is enough to start.

  2. Step 2

    Nomic drafts it in CAD

    Nomic works in CAD on its own computer, on your layers and blocks, following how your firm drew the same thing before. It saves real DWG files to the project.

  3. Step 3

    Nomic checks its own work

    The drawing is checked against the code editions you name and the source documents. Everything Nomic drew is clouded, and open questions are listed.

  4. Step 4

    Your team reviews and stamps

    Your engineers and architects review the clouded changes, make the final call, and issue the set under their own stamp.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files for white space power plans, busway layouts, one-lines, and cooling layouts. It drafts from your engineer's design and checks that every rack, busway, and panel agrees with the one-line before your engineer reviews it.

No. Your engineer chooses the topology, the UPS blocks, and the ratings. Nomic drafts the one-line and the plans from that design and traces every rack to its sources, so a drafting error that breaks the redundancy shows up as a finding for the engineer.

Nomic draws the typical hall once from the design, then repeats it in each hall and building with equipment names renumbered from your naming convention. Halls that differ, like an end hall with a shorter row or a different shell, are drawn on their own and listed.

Give Nomic the new density and the engineer's updated ratings, and Nomic updates the busway, PDU, and cooling counts on every hall sheet and schedule, clouding each change. Your engineer still decides the new ratings and reviews the result.

No. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files you open in AutoCAD or any DWG editor. On data centers modeled in Revit, Nomic delivers DWGs and change lists your modelers link into the model.

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