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.
[caption id="attachment_18889" align="aligncenter" width="470" caption="A graphic of the new data center power distribution system being implemented at Facebook, which replaces a central UPS with a battery built into the power supply."][/caption]...