Oracle has been honored by ASHRAE for design innovations in its Austin data center, which pioneered approaches to hot air containment and variable speed airflow that are now common in major data centers.
VYCON, which makes flywheels for backup power systems, announced today that it has closed a $13.7 million round of funding. Flywheels are an alternative to using batteries in a data center UPS (uninterruptible power supply) system.
A small but growing number of data center facilities are turning to gas-powered microturbines for on-site power generation with a lower emissions profile than diesel generators.
This white paper looks at several exciting new standby power solutions, all rapidly approaching mainstream commercial viability, appear poised to give the lead acid battery a run for its money.
Is your data center running out of power or cooling? To keep pace with business demands, data centers pack in more power-hungry, heat generating IT systems than ever.
What's ahead for Mark Bramfitt, who has been the electric utility industry’s most visible ambassador to the data center sector? Bramfitt, who is departing PG&E, discusses his plans and utilities' role in the data center sector in an interview...
White Paper: Major advancements in UPS and server designs have improved energy efficiency in data centers in recent years. The key to improving overall power efficiency is to look at end-to-end power distribution.
Will the data center of the future have no central UPS units, and be filled with servers with on-board batteries? The data center team at Facebook believes it should.
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Average power densities continue to rise in data centers, and are affecting the lifespan of existing data center facilities, according to new survey data from Emerson Network Power. A majority of data centers say they will run out of capacity wit...