Power management systems for data centers: Enhancing control and efficiency

Electricity powers data centers and critical infrastructure, enabling the flow of modern business and the delivery of public services. Yet multiple trends are prompting leaders of these organizations to reassess their power management system and how much power they're consuming to support critical operations. These trends include rising energy costs, growing power reliance, and increased necessity to reduce carbon emission.

Implementing an effective data center management strategy and an electrical control system can improve data center power distribution. Ultimately, utilizing an electrical power management system is essential for optimizing efficiency and enabling operational excellence.

Rising energy costs

Geopolitical developments create energy instability, while fast-paced data center growth increases industry demand for power. Both factors are driving electricity costs. The International Energy Agency reports that the electricity consumption of data centers is expected to double by 2026. In a worst-case scenario, their power usage could increase from 460 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2022 to over 1,000 TWh by 2026.

Vertiv™ Energy Power Management System (EPMS) provides real-time monitoring capabilities that increase electrical and facilities teams' visibility into power consumption. Vertiv EPMS gathers power and energy information from key distribution points across a building and synthesizes it. Teams gain insights they can use to optimize current processes, reduce energy consumption, and plan the construction of future energy-efficient facilities.

Growing reliance on power

Almost every business is now digital, and enterprises use various vendors' cloud services. As a result, hyperscale and colocation providers are consuming power on an industrial scale to deliver digital services. In addition, the number of high-density racks is increasing to support compute-intensive workloads.A 2024 survey by Uptime Institute shows a rise in rack power densities. Nearly a third of respondents report swift growth in rack power for recent deployments. This is fueled by the increase in silicon power and the launch of new high-powered server processors.

Vertiv™ Energy Power Management System (EPMS) enables electrical engineering teams to improve energy controls and enhance data center management to help maintain the continuity of vital infrastructure and operations.

Organizations, such as cloud service providers, healthcare, manufacturing, retail firms, and utilities, can't afford unplanned downtime, often creating significant business harm and cascading impacts across customers. Vertiv™ EPMS provides real-time information and preset alarms that electrical and facilities teams can use to take action to reduce the risk of shutdowns. If a fault does occur, the Vertiv EMPS fully automates power restoration, minimizing impacts on operations.

Increasing pressures to reduce carbon emissions

Fossil fuels generate 60 percent of electricity in the United States and 81 percent worldwide. Infrastructure and data center owners seek insights into power consumption to plan future construction and equipment purchases, finetune operations, and bill clients appropriately. By so doing, these organizations can reduce costs with internal chargebacks, decrease electricity use across facility or data center lifecycles, and reduce their carbon emissions.

Cloud service providers can increase market competitiveness by offering customers more services and varied pricing options. End customers also benefit from purchasing low- or zero-emission cloud services to grow and operate their businesses while accelerating their progress toward sustainability goals.

Vertiv EPMS provides the data and reporting that infrastructure and data center leaders might need to develop decarbonization strategies, meet industry and regional regulations, and report to key stakeholders. These leaders know that what you can't see, you can't measure. As a result, the Vertiv EPMS solution provides companies with the visibility they need to understand, benchmark current performance, and measure ongoing improvements. Customers can report cloud service providers' Scope 3 emissions data in their own environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports and business proposals, demonstrating how they work to reduce carbon emissions.

Increasing efficiency of electrical systems by deploying Vertiv EPMS

It's clear that these market trends are creating a greater need for visibility into - and control over - electrical power consumption. Vertiv EPMS offers data, alerts, and reporting that enable facility, electrical, IT, and sustainability teams to mitigate risks and continuously improve processes, strengthening operational discipline in their electrical power management system.

Gain a fully customizable solution

Vertiv EPMS provides the infrastructure to deliver software and digital services. The solution includes embedded operational controls, asset and facility software deployed on-premises or in the cloud, monitoring, management, control tools, and big-data management in a data lake to enable digital services. Teams can access services ranging from anomaly detection and notification to event and fault recording and troubleshooting, commissioning support, remote monitoring, condition-based monitoring, and more.

Buyers can work with Vertiv to customize their power management system to meet their unique requirements. In addition, the solution can be expanded over time to meet changing requirements. Vertiv is an original equipment manufacturer (OEM)-, platform-and protocol-agnostic, sourcing and incorporating hardware and software from various providers. We also provide an end-to-end solution for companies seeking to achieve speed to market and cost efficiencies by value-engineering equipment, integrating it, and testing it at our facilities.

Benefit from an automated solution

Mission-critical businesses need continuous power availability and are expanding all the time. That's why Vertiv™ EPMS provides digital monitoring and control capabilities that can be scaled across the fast-growing electrical networks that support vital business operations. When a fault occurs, the electrical control system automatically reroutes power from a primary source to alternative sources, maintaining the continuity of operations. Keeping operations up ensures the high availability of systems and prevents sales and revenue losses down to outages.

Gain a better user experience

Vertiv EPMS can be customized to meet business requirements and enhanced with equipment sensor data to provide enhanced monitoring capabilities. The solution can also be accessed from mobile devices, streamlining troubleshooting and team collaboration.

Access a complete power distribution solution

Vertiv offers one-stop shopping for data center power distribution equipment. Buyers can obtain medium- and low-voltage equipment, including battery energy storage systems (BESSs), electrical switchgear, power bars, uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), and more.

Purchasing more solutions from a trusted provider streamlines processes, from purchasing to implementation and maintenance, while ensuring global consistency. In addition, buyers can use streamlined acquisition processes to scale faster, deploying new systems at infrastructure sites and data center facilities before they are commissioned, minimizing onsite construction and disruption while ensuring global consistency of operations.

Access to trusted power specialists

Vertiv has a large, dedicated team of energy management and power automation and control engineers strategically located worldwide. Our engineers consult with clients and develop, customize, test, and implement solutions, including an electrical power management system, to meet their requirements. Customers can use Vertiv EPMS, which helps them drive cost savings by optimizing processes and drive revenues by offering new services. They also receive ongoing security updates and patches that protect their businesses and systems from the latest threats.

Use Vertiv™ EPMS to monitor and control power across facilities and networks.

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