Energy Efficiency is a key performance factor for Data Centre management. The primary challenge is this – how can you achieve efficiency without compromising on power reliability?

Premium Power can supply and commission advanced Electrical Power Monitoring systems for data centres, allowing real time data be viewed from your work station.

Customised views for each component of the electrical distribution system allow real time view of loads, breaker positions, event logs, waveforms and energy use.

Solutions can be integrated with building management information, process control variables via communication protocols Modbus, OPC or analog I/O for a complete enterprise power management system.

We can interface with data related to weather, occupancy, unplanned shutdowns, and other influencing factors.

Data Centre Energy Consumption

We can calculate

• kWh over time for IT Loads
• kW per CFM for Cooling Loads
• Watts per square foot by rack, work cell, usable floor space
• Comparisons of Processing vs. Storage vs. Telecommunications energy use over time
• Operational efficiency (energy input vs. energy to the IT process loads) for the entire facility or subset of the facility
• Total energy cost per square foot
• IT energy cost, by rack, by zone, by floor

The total magnitude of data centre energy consumption, including network and storage equipment, is now estimated to be between 1.5% and 3% of all electricity generated.

Currently, the typical 3-year cost of powering and cooling servers is approximately 1.5 times the cost of the server hardware itself, with projections of up to 22 times by the year 2012.