Designing a fire protection system for a critical facility application is a challenging engineering exercise, one which requires excellent knowledge and understanding of different fire suppression systems and fire alarm systems and their integration with the building fire alarm and building management systems (BMS).
A twist on traditional combined cooling, heat, and power (CCHP) systems makes trigeneration technology more accessible for mission critical facilities in the 1 MW to 20 MW range.
Historically, there are four primary reasons that enterprise data centers haven’t widely adopted combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) tech-nology: up-front cost, consistent quality, scalability, and finding effective uses for waste heat.
The data boom is here … to stay. Internet traffic continues to explode with more data-rich content, and according to a 2012 report by Cisco, mobile data usage is expected to increase 13-fold between 2012 and 2017.
It only takes a matter of seconds. Armed with a simple flash memory drive or USB port, an unauthorized user can quickly steal valuable data from a server rack with a working Ethernet connection.
Both the business-minded head and the socially responsible heart of the data center industry know the industry needs an alternative power source to complement its voracious electricity consumption from the nation's aging, primarily coal-powered grid.
This article describes an economic modeling approach being used to help data center owners more wisely choose locations for new data center de-velopments and to forecast costs along with long-term economic returns on investment associated with those prospective sites.