United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) built its name on more than a century of efficient distribution. Supported by two primary data centers, the iconic brand meets the IT and logistical demands of handling more than 15 million packages a day. The design, construction, and migration to new uninterruptible power supply systems (UPSS) for the company’s Alpharetta, GA, data center sought to do the same.
In operation since 1995, the company’s Tier IV mission critical facility needed to upgrade its aging equipment in order to maintain optimal reliability and flexibility for its 2,000-kilowatt critical load. As an educated owner-operator, UPS performed 10 months of evaluations to determine just the right solution for its conditioned power distribution needs. In an effort to lower the risk of interruption and raise reliability while reducing cost and maintaining Tier IV infrastructure, UPS chose to replace its single network legacy conditioned power distribution system with one that split the IT and mechanical loads onto separate conditioned power networks.