The expansion of our Bournemouth data centre is still progressing well, and the facility is really starting to take shape!
In order for us to offer cost savings to clients within the Bournemouth data centre, we have ensured that we can accurately monitor the power used within the facility. This monitoring will also allow us to keep a closer eye on our own energy efficiency, and will help to lower CO2 emissions.
The picture you see below shows the piece of kit that allows all of this to happen – a Power monitor.
This equipment will allow us to monitor the power usage of a particular rack at PDU level. At the centre of this system is an energy metering device for each circuit, which is capable of measuring a wide variety of power usage, including…
- RMS Voltage (Volts)
- RMS Current (Amps)
- Power Factor (%)
- Apparent Power (kVA)
- Active Power (kW)
- Reactive Power (kVAr)
- Apparent Energy (kVAh)
- Active Energy (kWh)
- Reactive Energy (kVArh).
The overlying benefit of our extremely accurate power monitoring system is that we will now be able to offer customers two types of colocation within the Bournemouth facility.
The first of these is typical colocation option where our customers will commit to 8/12/16amps in a rack and pay for their commit. The second option is that we will now also be able to provide a footprint cost and then bill for power on a monthly basis. Furthermore, we can also provide graphs of each customers’ power usage, which will accessible from the new customer portal (more to come on that in the New Year!)
Each customer rack will also be equipped with a switched power bar, again allowing us to track power usage and offer customers the ability to turn sockets on and off remotely, saving a huge amount of time if just a simple reboot is required. Of course this option will only be offered if customers so wish, as our technicians are still only a few floors up from the data centre, and on hand to personally attend a rack if needed.
Tags: Bournemouth, C4L, Colocation, Data Centre, Power