Florida mandates backup generators for nursing homes following deaths

In Florida, nursing homes across the state have been given 60 days to equip their facilities with backup generators, after the deaths of eight...

Funding secured for KAO data centre campus

KAO Data Campus, a new £200m, 35-acre science and technology data centre campus located on the London-Stansted-Cambridge corridor, has raised an extra £33m through...

Getting to the heart of sustainable power

Could hydrogen fuel cell technology replace diesel generators at mission critical sites? A cath lab in Israel has already moved to this alternative source...

Growth in demand for intelligent PDUs

Panduit discussed the latest developments in converged infrastructure solutions at DCD Zettastructure. Louise Frampton met with Sander Kaempfer and Michael Akinla to find out...

Guidance issued on maintaining UPS

In a data centre, the UPS acts as the first line of defence, protecting against a range of power problems – from voltage spikes...

Hidden deterioration in electrical infrastructure causes unplanned outages

EA Technology’s Jason Butler says mission critical sites should use partial discharge monitoring to avoid unplanned outages. In the worst case scenario, failures have...

High availability ensured with double-security switching technology

The resilience of critical installations - the ability to remain operational even when there has been a power outage, hardware failure or other unforeseen...

High-capacity DC distribution bays with intelligent load management

Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has introduced the NetSure 8100DB series of DC power distribution systems, bringing increased visibility and intelligent load management to...

How to reduce loss of power risks

Sudlows design engineer Anthony Unsworth outlines the threat to power continuity - and how to mitigate against them. The demand for mission critical systems is...

Hyper security in a changing world: the hidden data centre

There have been some high profile power outages at data centres, political instability in the EU and suggestions that data centres could become the...

Industrial supply issues bring a new relevance to power factor correction

Industrial supply issues bring a new relevance to power factor correction, says Stephen Joyce, power quality business manager at ABB’s Power Grids business in the...

IP House protects against downtime through DCIM solution

IP House, a London-based data centre startup and new entrant to the UK colocation market, has selected EcoStruxure IT, the next generation cloud-based Data...

JCB generators in pole position for Grand Prix support

JCB’s high powered generators and other machines are in pole position to support Williams Martini Racing, as the team tours the top European Formula...

JCB secures major rental generator deal

Power generator manufacturer JCB Power Products has landed a major deal with a leading company in the Middle East. Dubai-based Rental Solutions & Services...

JCB wins £10m contract for gas powered generators

JCB has secured a deal worth £10 million which will see the company’s first major entry into the gas powered generator sector. The company’s Power...

JCB wins major contract for standby power at Canary Wharf

JCB Broadcrown has secured a contract to provide stand-by power at one of London’s most striking and  mixed use developments. Standing 27 storeys high,...

Kirby powers up Dublin’s Gemini Data Centre

Kirby Group Engineering, a provider of mechanical and electrical engineering and contracting services across Europe, has delivered a grid connection for the 18MW Gemini...

Legrand expands PDU offering through acquisition of Server Technology

More generally, Legrand is strengthening its presence in the growing market for digital infrastructure, one of the Group’s four buoyant new business segments, driven...

Loadbanks deliver resilience for Europe’s greenest mine

Crestchic has provided two of its 1MW resistive only loadbanks to the first ever underground data centre, based in Norway.  The Lefdal mine, a 120,000...

London: is the capital still the epicentre for data centres?

Aegis Data has speculated that London “may no longer be the epicentre for the data centre community”. The Surrey-based co-location provider says that third-party...