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Scope 3 Reporting is Critical to Reducing Data Center Emissions
Investors, clients, and partners increasingly expect organizations to provide comprehensive environmental impact disclosure. But despite companies’ good-faith efforts to provide accurate reporting, many are failing to account for a full 65-95% of their greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint: Scope 3 emissions. As a result, stakeholders receive only an incomplete picture of the business’ sustainability, and the organization misses an opportunity […]
May 20, 2022 -
How IEEE’s Energy Storage Documents Help Users Choose the Best Battery
Energy storage technology has come a long way since the days of watermills and the first rechargeable battery. We now have a wide range of battery technologies to choose from, including lithium-ion, sodium-beta, lead-acid, nickel-zinc and others. As the number of options on the market continues to grow, choosing the storage technology that is best suited for […]
November 22, 2021 -
How AI is driving up density requirements and the energy storage needed to support this
At the recent DCD>San Francisco event, we sat down to discuss hyperscale energy storage and sustainability in light of increasing rack-density needs. This seems to be a point of anxiety frequently raised in the data center industry, and unfortunately not one that can be ignored into submission. One of the technologies that are driving this need for increased density […]
November 1, 2021 -
Zinc Technology Advances Across Energy Storage Markets – And Not Just Our Own
It’s an exciting time to be in the energy storage business! In a prior blog post, A New Initiative Celebrates Performance, Safety and Sustainability of Zinc Batteries, we talked about our membership in the Zinc Battery Initiative (ZBI), an initiative created by the International Zinc Association to educate about the advantages and uses of rechargeable zinc […]
October 6, 2021 -
The Better Server Rack Battery Backup For DC Power Distribution
DC power distribution opens the door to rack-level battery backup. Which battery chemistry should you invite in? The hyperscale providers[1] are leading the adoption of DC distribution at the rack level, rather than a pure AC power distribution architecture. The economic drivers are straightforward: save space and save power. First, with DC power distribution, data center […]
August 25, 2021 -
Hard Facts About Data Center Reliability
One hard fact about data center Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) is that the very system that is supposed to prevent an outage – the UPS – is too often the cause of it. In its Annual Outage Analysis 2021, Uptime Institute referenced its 2020 global survey that shows on-site power failure is still the biggest cause of significant […]
June 30, 2021 -
Artificial intelligence is challenging rack power density and battery backup
Artificial Intelligence (AI) takes an awful lot of processing power. That’s putting real pressure on data center rack power density and rack-based battery backup. The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) is business as the new usual. The rapid adoption of these applications has created an explosion in data center workloads. OpenAI—an […]
May 12, 2021 -
A New Initiative Celebrates Performance, Safety and Sustainability of Zinc Batteries
It’s not often an industry throws a party, but the Zinc Battery Initiative (ZBI) sure feels like one to us. The fun started last year when the International Zinc Association formed ZBI to promote rechargeable zinc batteries’ remarkable story and promote their advantages across many applications. While each participating member has its own proprietary technology, […]
April 28, 2021 -
Ensuring ESS Safety in Data Centers with NFPA 855 – Part 2
Data center safety is a growing challenge as facilities expand in size and number, along with their UPS and battery systems. Now there is a single guiding document, NFPA 855, to help operators manage the potential risk from all that stored energy. In the first blog post in this two-part series, we provided an overview of regulatory […]
April 7, 2021 -
Ensuring ESS Safety in Data Centers with NFPA 855 – Part 1
As data centers expand in size and number, so will the demand for sufficient, reliable and safe backup power. UPS battery systems will get larger and distributed more widely, which will heighten scrutiny on potential hazards from all that stored energy. In this first post in a two-part series, we’ll provide an overview of the […]
March 31, 2021
