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[Scott Holtzman]

Working in the Millwaukee data center today.  56kva load on this UPS.  Righttwo racks are batteries, next is inverter then charger and controller.

Also a PIC of new switches being staged in the office.

Power and data open..,have fun



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[Chris Hindle]

Working in the Millwaukee data center today.  56kva load on this UPS.  Righttwo racks are batteries, next is inverter then charger and controller.

Also a PIC of new switches being staged in the office.

Power and data open..,have fun

I'm guessing the the Diesel / natural gas Genny kicks in at 5 minutes ?
That's some collection of batteries........
Chris.

[Lyle Williams]

...and a regular stream of diesel tankers is triggered to keep the tanks full.

A significant facility might draw 10 MW and have lots of smaller UPS serving individual data halls.

[Bob Leonard]

Why is it so small? I'll see if I can dig up some pictures of a real data center for you.

[Dennis Wiggins]

...having worked in that environment during the last 3 decades of the last century (when they still had exposed copper bus bars!), I'm really surprised they let you take photos.

-Dennis

[Tim McCulloch]

...having worked in that environment during the last 3 decades of the last century (when they still had exposed copper bus bars!), I'm really surprised they let you take photos.

-Dennis

I think Scott owns a piece of it, Wigs.

[Lyle Williams]

Lots of big datacenters are divided into data halls that look like the attached photos.  Different customers want physically secure space.  Fire supression etc can be contained to one space too.

Not many places are "one room the size of a football field".

[Lyle Williams]

...and a regular stream of diesel tankers is triggered to keep the tanks full.

Roughly speaking if the datacenter draws '10X' megawatts it needs 'X' road tankers full of diesel per day to keep it going without grid power.

[Erik Jerde]

Lots of big datacenters are divided into data halls that look like the attached photos.  Different customers want physically secure space.  Fire supression etc can be contained to one space too.

Not many places are "one room the size of a football field".

Depends on the DC.  When I worked for IBM the DC I was in was owned by a large financial/credit card company.  Took up a complete city block, 7 floors.  3 floors were over 90% raised floor, one giant room on each of them.  1 floor was lab and receiving, 1 floor was environment control, 1 floor of garage, and 1 floor of office space.  I think it was about 200K sqft total raised floor.  Don't have any pictures 'cause those would get you fired.

[Scott Holtzman]

Depends on the DC.  When I worked for IBM the DC I was in was owned by a large financial/credit card company.  Took up a complete city block, 7 floors.  3 floors were over 90% raised floor, one giant room on each of them.  1 floor was lab and receiving, 1 floor was environment control, 1 floor of garage, and 1 floor of office space.  I think it was about 200K sqft total raised floor.  Don't have any pictures 'cause those would get you fired.

To answer everyone's questions.  It is a small data center but that is just one room.  Yes I used to own the company but I sold my interest in December and I am a director of Net Ops at the company that purchased me so I that's why I can take pictures. 

This is a shared space.  Mostly telecom stuff.  Where the TDM network gets converted to Internet protocols. 

Two genny's serve the whole facility, it's very small compared to some of the "mega" facilities.  It is almost NEBS levels 3 so more than adequate as one of the three DC's that comprise are VoIP network.  We are a speck on the beach in the CLE data center, these folks treat us like kings. 

I never walked out back to see the size of the gensets but probably in the 500kw range. 

I am sure that Bob will agree,  having 30 years of working on telco power systems gives a firm foundation for production work. 

Just thought I would share a little glimpse into my "other vocation:.

Crazy me got off the plane at 10:00PM, put on a t-shirt and loaded the truck for tomorrow's shows. 

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