Eaton pushes 400/230V unit, but is it ready for (U.S.) primetime?
Profile: Mark Fontecchio
Last week, Eaton Corp. announced a new uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with a 400V/230V power distribution that's uncommon in U.S. data centers. In most data centers, power comes from the utility at...
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Data center engineering firm to offer classes
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PTS Data Center Solutions, Inc., a New Jersey-based engineering firm, will offer classes on data center facilities issues starting later this year. The company, run by Pete Sacco, a data center engineer well known in the industry, will...
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Active Power makes case for flywheel UPS in new paper
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In a new whitepaper, flywheel uninterruptible power supply (UPS) company Active Power makes the case for,...
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Emerson energy exec calls for data center water metric
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Jack Pouchet, the director of energy initiatives for Emerson Network Power, is calling for a new metric measuring a data center's water use as compared to its productivity (measured in Emerson's own Compute Units per Second).
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Equinix wins energy savings award from Silicon Valley group
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Major data center colocation company Equinix scored an energy award from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group this week for the energy-efficient design its data centers. Equinix has received almost $1 million in rebates from the...
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NSA to build massive $1.6 billion data center in Utah
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Last week President Barack Obama signed a war spending bill that, among other things, gets the ball rolling on a massive National Security Agency data center that is estimated to cost $1.6 billion over the next four years. The data center would be built at Camp Williams, a military base just...
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