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AKCP Articles
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Fuel cell-powered data centers
Data centers are becoming a vital component of today’s digital technology-driven world. From cloud computing to communications to finance, many industries depend on data centers. They centralize services for the storage, management, and ...
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Dcentralizing Data Center Power
Replacing a centralized electrical distribution system with a distributed power architecture sets up a facility to handle unexpected demand spikes. The Covid-19 pandemic has radically changed the way people are using the digital infrastructure. The ...
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Building Sustainable and Resilient Data Centers
The Covid-19 pandemic has made physical contact almost impossible to conduct business. People are staying home and going online to work and meet. This has puts pressure on data centers and communications infrastructure. It is vital that data centers ...
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What Reduces Battery Life?
Batteries have become the lifeblood of today’s machines, devices, and equipment. Batteries enable us to use them without an electrical connection. But batteries, as we know, have limited capacity. Sooner we’ll have to plug our laptops, ...
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Data Centers’ Energy Use Rises - What’s Next for Efficiency?
We’ve often heard that for companies to lessen carbon footprint and become environmentally friendly, they must go online or put their papers and process in the “cloud”. But that’s not really the case, as storing files in the ...
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Where Do We Find the Most Energy-Efficient Data Centers?
The quest for energy-efficient data centers has been getting stronger every year. As computing power gets better, and more organizations and enterprises go online, data centers have to accommodate massive data more than ever. The increase of data to ...
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Why Energy is a Problem for Data Center Growth
Data centers located in the USA consume around 90 billion Kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. Globally, data centers account for around 3% of the worlds total energy consumption. At the current rate of data center expansion this is set to double ...
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Generator Maintenance Monitoring
Types of generators and maintenance requirements There are two categories of generator power installations. Emergency Power Supply Systems (EPPS) are an independent power supply system for life-critical infrastructure. For example, hospitals are ...
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Hospital Backup Power Plan - Understanding NFPA 110 Chapter 7
How NFPA 110 can help you plan your hospital backup power system NFPA 110 provides guidelines for the performance of emergency and standby power systems. It is a requirement for hospitals to provide Emergency Power Supply Systems (EPSS). These ...
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Protect Your Data Center During Power Outages and Heatwaves
IT Infrastructure located in a hot climate is a challenge. This is exasperated when heatwaves occur. Abnormally hot temperatures present considerable challenges to your Data Center. Protect Your Data Center During Power Outages and Heatwaves. ...
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AKCP Battery Monitoring for Géoazur - Case Study
Géoazur is a team of geophysicists, geologists and astronomers. With more than 100 permanent staff they specialize in the observation and monitoring of geophysical and astronomical activities.Géoazur operates a network of ...