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UPS technology to meet large scale data centre power demands
Larger data centres are now being commissioned to meet the level of today’s demand for online data processing capacity. Kenny Green, technical support manager at Uninterruptible Power Supplies, a Kohler Company, looks at how UPS technology has been developed to meet these elevated power demands
ot all data centres are sized like one particular Google site, which has a reputed capacity of over 45,000 servers. Nevertheless, installations with large, dense populations of servers demanding megawatt power are a reality that must be supported by correspondingly scaled UPS con- figurations. These must be designed specifically for elevated power levels - but can they retain the UPS benefits currently offered by their smaller counterparts? UPS installations today, rated at tens or hundreds of kilowatts, typi- cally benefit from transformerless design. These use new DSP and power semiconductor technology to eliminate the output transformer seen in earlier medium and high power PWM-based UPS systems. The extent of space and weight saving this creates means that UPS units of up to 50kVA can be implemented as
N S8
19” rack mounted modules - a single rack with a small footprint can be populated with up to five of these, delivering up to 250kVA. The flexi- bility of this modular design brings many benefits - now, the advent of products like the UPSL PowerWAVE 6000 stand alone UPS extends these benefits into the MVA power arena.
A new wave The PowerWAVE 6000 uses trans- formerless design and Energy Saving Inverter Switching (ESIS) to deliver up to 500kVA from a single unit. The power upscaling means that this unit is a floor standing assembly rather than a slide-in rack mounted module. However, it can deliver its power from a small footprint, ranging from 1.4m2 down to 0.41m2
This equates to a supplied power den- sity of up to 357kW/m2
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Up to ten units can be paralleled to support critical loads of up to 5MVA,
Above: installations with large, dense populations of servers demanding megawatt power are a reality that must be supported by correspondingly scaled UPS configurations
, depending on rating.
with 100% capacity sizing that is 5MW at unity power factor. In the context of these power levels, each 500kVA unit can be considered as modular. Just like their smaller rack mounted counter- parts, their number can be incremented to match the data centre’s growing load. Extra modules can easily be added for N+1, N+2 or greater redundancy. An efficiency of up to 96% minimises oper- ating costs and cooling power demand. Today’s incessant and continually expanding demand for ‘always on’ processing power has led to data cen- tres with loads of MVA rather than kVA. These loads can now be sup- plied by large scale UPS configura- tions offering the same scalability, resilience, efficiency and other bene- fits that users have come to expect from their smaller kVA rated systems.
Uninterruptible Power Supplies
www.upspower.co.uk T: 0800 171 2320
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