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Debunking Natural Gas Myths

By Voices of the Industry - April 8, 2022 1 Comment

Natural gas

There are still a lot of misconceptions about natural gas as a clean, reliable fuel source to power an entire data center in emergency situations. Erik Brumbaugh of Enchanted Rock addresses some of the common myths around the use of natural gas.

Tagged With: backup power source, data center sustainability, enchanted rock, natural gas generators

Breaking Historical Power Norms: Energy and Resiliency as a Service

By Bill Kleyman - March 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

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 Leave a Comment

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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 Leave a Comment

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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

The State of the Grid: Understanding the Power Paradigm Shift

By Bill Kleyman - March 4, 2022 Leave a Comment

Natural Gas

The electric grid is more than just generation and transmission infrastructure. Learn why data center leaders must understand the power paradigm shift in this special report series courtesy of Enchanted Rock.

Tagged With: enchanted rock, Energy, microgrids, 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

Top 10 Data Center Stories of January 2022

By Rich Miller - February 1, 2022

Rows of equipment in the Meta AI Research SuperCluster, Meta AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), a new supercomputer to enable new AI models. (Photo: Meta)

Future trends and the emerging metaverse were hot topics on Data Center Frontier last month. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in January 2022.

Tagged With: Aligned, American Real Estate, DataBank, Digital Realty, enchanted rock, Equinix, Flexential, Iron Mountain, Meta, Metaverse, Roblox, TikTok

Hybrid Microgrids Help Data Centers Achieve Net-Zero Goals

By Voices of the Industry - January 5, 2022

green data centers

Many large power consumers, like data centers, have corporate objectives of carbon neutrality, but find themselves having to achieve this through buying carbon credits to offset their carbon output. John Gould, Chief Revenue Officer of Enchanted Rock explores how hybrid microgrids can help data centers, and other large energy users, lead the way when it comes to achieving their net-zero carbon emission goals.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, data center sustainability, enchanted rock, Hyperscale data center, microgrids

Dual Purpose Microgrids Provide Resilience and Grid Stability

By Kathy Hitchens - November 23, 2021

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Increasingly severe weather events and the resulting power outages (some lasting weeks) exacerbate challenges to grid reliability. Enchanted Rock explores how dual purpose microgrids can offer both value to site hosts as well as stability to the grid at large.

Tagged With: backup power source, enchanted rock, microgrids, sustainability

Microgrids Provide Clean and Resilient Alternative to Diesel Backup Power

By Kathy Hitchens - November 16, 2021

Given goals for a cleaner U.S. power supply, utilities and policymakers may be seeking alternatives to a strategy of deploying diesel generators for backup power/resilience. Enchanted Rock compares microgrid solutions to see which alternative to diesel backup power can provide resilience while reducing emissions.

Tagged With: backup power source, Clean Energy, enchanted rock, microgrids

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Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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6Sigma Digital Twin

Release 16: Empowering Data Center Teams with Each New Software Release

In this white paper from Future Facilities, you’ll learn about the updates and features in the newest version of their 6Sigma Digital Twin, a 3-D physics-based virtual modeling software that provides cutting-edge graphics and integrations.

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DCF Spotlight

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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 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

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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