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Increasing power density in data centers makes it important that owners, designers, and operators make efficient use of energy.
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Energy Storage Quiz

Quiz | Energy Storage

Does energy storage reduce data center generator requirements?
August 8, 2022
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There are various categories of energy storage systems that feature different components and characteristics to enhance or impact the availability of data centers during utility outages.


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Spinning up data center power protection

Green energy storage with flywheels
John Jeter
August 2, 2022
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Data centers, colos, medical facilities, and industrial plants across the globe have found that the use of flywheels — in conjunction with or instead of batteries — significantly increases power reliability and uptime.


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Environmentally hypocritical

It’s time to start questioning your answers to sustainability
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Amy Al-Katib, CDCDP
July 31, 2022
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There’s a point where today’s quality of life will exceed tomorrow’s possibility of life if we don’t do something to change that. When? I don’t think anyone really knows. But, the key to finding more answers is asking more questions.


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Video | The ‘Greener Data’ movement

A code green update
July 15, 2022
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Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, founder and CEO of JSA, talks about the “Greener Data” movement.


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Microgrid Solution — ABB

July 12, 2022
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ABB’s microgrid solutions allow data centers to operate fully off-grid, powered by their own solar or wind generation coupled with battery energy storage systems (BESSs), or partially off-grid by utilizing both renewables and power networks.


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Echandia to supply battery system for Stockholm’s second emission-free, high-speed commercial catamaran

The vessel can hold 147 passengers and 28 bikes
June 20, 2022
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This project not only reduces emissions from Stockholm's waterways but also pioneers emission-free, high-speed transportation that potentially can be used in cities all over the world.


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Eaton to expand collaboration with Microsoft on grid-interactive UPS technology

Companies advance the energy transition and enable customers to reach their sustainability goals
June 16, 2022
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The primary function of a UPS is to provide backup power protection for mission critical applications and facilities and to protect them from grid outages or power quality issues. 


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GRC releases guide for single-phase, liquid immersion cooling in cryptocurrency mining

Enabling data centers to manage compute-intensive transactions sustainably and profitably
June 9, 2022
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Cryptocurrency mining is compute-intensive and uses a significant amount of energy — the mining of Bitcoin alone consumes 1% of the world’s energy. The only way for miners to maximize profit is by utilizing specialized, high-performance servers that run at maximum capacity 24/7/365.


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Grid-interactive power: a new frontier in data center innovation

From energy users to producers
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Ehsan Nasr, Ph.D, P.Eng. SMIEEE,
June 7, 2022
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Renewable energy sources, particularly wind and solar, are rapidly growing in adoption as a key source of energy for the grid. However, they carry important engineering challenges and other issues that cannot be overlooked.


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Refrigerant Soup: CFCs, HFCs, HCFCs, etc.

A promising future for CO2
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Seth Chicos
June 6, 2022
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With data centers on par with the aviation industry for their contribution to the world’s CO2 emissions, alternative refrigerants in data center cooling systems have the potential to reduce emissions equivalent to 43.5–50.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide from 2020 to 2050.


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