White Paper: “Whole Facility UPS Protection: A Practical Solution to Class-A Data-Center Power Densities”.

This paper was prepared for inclusion in the first edition of the Quarterly e-Journal on High-Density Computing: The Path Forward 2006 – The Papers and Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on High-Density, held in April, 2006, the official publication of The Institute’s High-Density Computing e-Community of Practice. With the exponential growth in power density in computer rooms, there have been major changes to the mechanical and electrical design criteria for data centers. As powerdensities approach 200 to 300 watts per square foot, making a facility’s cooling systemfunction in an uninterruptible fashion is a major undertaking.

The most logical way to accomplish non-stop cooling is by protecting the mechanical system loads with uninterruptible power. This creates the new challengeof keeping overall energy use as efficient as possible without compromise to the reliableuptime operation of the facility, while at the same time controlling total facility costs. This paper provides a practical way to add large-scale UPS protection to chiller, pump, and fan loads, and demonstrates how overall system efficiency can be improved while expanding overall UPS protection to the entire data center facility

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