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Microsoft Taps UPS Batteries to Help Add Wind Power to Ireland’s Grid

By Rich Miller - July 11, 2022 1 Comment

A long row of racks and servers inside a Microsoft Azure cloud data center. (Image: Microsoft)

Microsoft data centers will soon begin sharing energy from their UPS battery storage systems with Ireland’s power grid, part of a growing movement for data centers to collaborate more closely with the utility industry.

Tagged With: Batteries, Eaton, Grid Services, Microsoft

Investors Pump $1 Billion into AI Chip Startups Samba Nova, Groq

By Rich Miller - April 19, 2021

Data center hardware from Groq, which just raised $300 million in venture financing. (Image: Groq)

Investors are pouring money into artificial intelligence (AI) startups at an unprecedented rate. Last week, two AI hardware startups received nearly $1 billion in venture capital funds to bring additional chips to market.

Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Groq, Processors, SambaNova

UPSTACK Receives $50 Million Investment to Boost Cloud Procurement

By Rich Miller - April 14, 2021

IT agency UPSTACK has received a $50 million investment from private equity firm Berkshire Partners. The funding reflects investor interest in the business of procuring cloud and colocation services.

Tagged With: UPSTACK

A Smart Grid that Includes Data Center UPS Units: A Potential ‘Win-Win-Win Solution’

By Paul Gillin - December 18, 2020

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The grid that provides most of the electrical power in the U.S. was designed in the 1890s. A Smart Grid that includes data center UPS units has the potential to be a win-win-win solution for all parties.

Tagged With: data center sustainability, Energy, smart grid, sustainability

AWS Designs In-Rack Micro UPS Units For a More Efficient Cloud

By Rich Miller - December 11, 2020

Amazon Senior VP of Infrastructure Peter DeSantis shares an image of a Mac Mini server running within an AWS data center during this week's re;Invent 2020 conference. (Image: AWS)

Amazon Web Services has begun designing its own rack-level Micro UPS units for its data centers, eliminating a centralized UPS in a move that will dramatically improve the power efficiency of its cloud computing operations.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, UPS

Put your UPS to Work Generating New Revenue

By Voices of the Industry - August 24, 2020

Ed Spears, Product Marketing Manager, Eaton Critical Power Solutions Division, explores how to make your uninterruptible power supply – or UPS system – to work creating new revenue for your data center.

Tagged With: Eaton, Lithium-Ion Batteries, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, UPS

Lithium-ion UPS Adoption is Far More Than a Passing Fad

By Voices of the Industry - July 9, 2020

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Ed Spears, Product Marketing Manager, Eaton Critical Power Solutions Division, highlights the benefits and changing reputation of lithium-ion UPS batteries in the data center and colocation industry. 

Tagged With: Data Center Power, Eaton, Lithium-Ion Batteries

The IoT Extends to Space: Satellite Startups Connect Remote Devices

By Doug Mohney - March 27, 2020

An illustration of a compact nano-satellite from Hiber, which is creating a space-based IoT network. (Image: Hiber)

More than 20 new companies are using constellations of low-cost low-flying “nanosatellites” to collect data from devices, pursuing a future in which space-based networks connect the Internet of Things (IoT).

Tagged With: Satellite

Lithium-ion Battery Solutions for UPS Applications in Remote Facilities & Edge Data Centers

By Sarah Rubenoff - March 23, 2020

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Lithium-ion batteries may have. been a common source of power for various consumer devices for years, but the they now being adopted, as well, for use with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) applications, “as a means of ensuring uptime for mission-critical infrastructure in data centers.” A new white paper from Vertiv pointed out that for companies looking to deploy distributed computing and edge networks, lithium-ion batteries are well suited for use with IT deployments in remote locations.

Tagged With: Edge Data Centers, Lithium-Ion Batteries, remote data centers, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, UPS Energy Storage, Vertiv

The Advantages of Using Lithium-Ion Batteries as A Backup Power Source in Single-Phase UPS Applications for Data Centers

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If your company has a need to establish localized IT resources, you may be thinking of investing in and deploying multiple IT footprints in remote locations, as part of a distributed computing or edge network. In the past five years, lithium-ion batteries have come into use as a stored energy source in traditional data centers. Download the new white paper in which Vertiv looks at how these types of batteries can also be used to support single-phase UPS systems in remote mission-critical environments and edge data centers.

Tagged With: backup power source, Lithium-Ion Batteries, UPS power supply, Vertiv

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