A microdatacentre (or micro-datacentre or micro data centre - MDC) is a self-contained managed environment (in a cubicle or container) housing server racks, cooling (air conditioning) and power (UPS system) connections. A microdatacentre is a smaller alternative to a fixed-building datacentre and allows operators to install datacentre-type processing power close to the point of need in an 'Edge' computing format. Once installed the operator or user simply installs and configures their IT servers into the racks,