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How Microgrids Can Modernize The Grid

By Kathy Hitchens - June 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

Compliance

The reliability of the U.S. electric grid has taken center stage as increasingly powerful storms and more frequent natural disasters have revealed grid vulnerabilities. Learn why microgrids are the new highly resilient, carbon-neutral backup generation solution for today’s technology ecosystems.

Tagged With: data center microgrids, enchanted rock, Energy, Reliability, sustainability

Going Beyond Compliance: When Compliance Alone is Not Enough

By Voices of the Industry - June 6, 2022 Leave a Comment

Compliance

While exceeding compliance may be possible, it can cost more to do so. Allan Schurr of Enchanted Rock explains how clean microgrids can help data centers exceed minimum compliance and save money. 

Tagged With: backup power source, data center microgrids, enchanted rock, Renewable Energy

Breaking Historical Power Norms: Energy and Resiliency as a Service

By Bill Kleyman - March 22, 2022

Leaders in the power and data center space still have misconceptions about power delivery, decarbonization, efficiency, and resiliency. A significant focus in working with power solutions today revolves around sustainable designs and ensuring more significant levels of resiliency. Learn how new solutions such as energy and resiliency-as-a-service break legacy paradigms, courtesy of Enchanted Rock.

Tagged With: data center energy, data center microgrids, data center sustainability, enchanted rock, natural gas

The Makings of a Modern Microgrid

By Bill Kleyman - March 16, 2022

microgrids

Learn how a microgrid offers more than just backup power generation, including the capabilities that can allow microgrids to help modernize energy sources and how they are managed. This continues our special report series via Enchanted Rock.

Tagged With: data center energy, data center microgrids, enchanted rock, microgrids, Reliability

The State of the Grid: Time for a Refresh

By Bill Kleyman - March 10, 2022

Grid

Our electrical infrastructure is aging, and is being pushed to do more than it was initially designed to do. Learn why it’s time for the electric grid to be refreshed in this special report series with Enchanted Rock.

Tagged With: data center energy, data center microgrids, enchanted rock, Reliability

Reliability-as-a-Service Makes Microgrids Affordable

By Kathy Hitchens - February 16, 2022

reliability-as-a-service

More and more businesses are showing interest in microgrids and the enhanced electric reliability and power quality they provide. Enchanted Rock explores how the concept of reliability-as-a-service can make microgrids affordable for data centers.

Tagged With: data center microgrids, enchanted rock, Energy, Reliability

Beyond Diesel: Sustainable Onsite Power for Data Centers

By Kathy Hitchens - October 28, 2021

A growing number of data center operators are looking to reduce or eliminate onsite diesel generators. But what will take their place? Join DCF’s Rich Miller on November 4, 2021 at 2pm as he discusses data center microgrids with Carsten Baumann of Schneider Electric.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, data center microgrids, Generators, Schneider Electric, webinar

Data Microgrids on the Rise as the Colo Industry Deploys More Resilient Power Systems

By Sarah Rubenoff - June 18, 2020

data microgrids

The data center industry is on the lookout for ways to better meet society’s demand for “constant connectivity, content delivery, and a myriad of business and personal necessities.” That’s according to a new special report from Data Center Frontier in partnership with Microgrid Knowledge and distributer energy leader Enchanted Rock that explores the growing symbiotic relationship between microgrids and data centers.

Tagged With: data center microgrids, Data Center Power, enchanted rock, microgrids

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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