Data centres

When power management is essential, Socomec has the expertise to guarantee the performance of your electrical installations. By delivering the most innovative solutions and services for your precise requirements, we help to ensure the power availability and energy performance of your data centre. Whether you’re a data centre manager or owner, our expert advice and innovative solutions will help you get your electrical installation running at optimum efficiency, so you can meet your energy targets.

Operational continuity is a major challenge for data centres, particularly as demand continues to grow and architectures become more complex. 
Outages can have disastrous effects, both for the site operator and for service users.
For the operator, this could mean substantial financial losses, damage to property or a damaged reputation. For users, outages can lead to data loss and corruption of files in the process of being written. The main cause of outages in data centres is linked to the power supply. However, 80% of these outages can be anticipated and sometimes even avoided if the right reflexes are adopted when designing the electrical architecture of data centres, by choosing the right solutions.  For example, it is essential for the operator of a data centre to optimally manage its lithium-ion batteries. 

To remain competitive, data centres need to reduce their operating costs without compromising on performance. 
Rationalisation of the infrastructure, optimisation of energy consumption, and integration of innovative technologies to improve performance are some of the ways to stay in the race. 
Socomec offers innovative solutions that enable tangible savings to be made while ensuring optimum performance. 
In particular, they make it possible to measure the data centre’s PUE (power usage effectiveness), anticipate insulation fault, significantly reduce UPS losses, and take advantage of energy storage to consume more efficiently.

From a data centre design perspective, the provision of a continuous, reliable service and the elimination of downtime are key – with availability rooted in architectural resiliency and the optimisation of TCO. CAPEX and OPEX are critical, but so is carbon footprint – all of which are impacted by architectural and design choices.

Specifying to the highest level of data centre resiliency and redundancy can help deliver an optimised level of security and stability while certain designs will minimise the need for redundant hardware and optimise resource utilisation – leading to the installation of less equipment, lower capital costs and a reduced carbon footprint. One such, Catcher Architecture delivers ultimate resiliency and is built to optimise yields and costs.

Big data also forces data centres to adapt quickly to meet growing capacity and performance requirements and facilities need to be increasingly flexible and responsive.

With our scalable solutions, you can add power modules to your UPS or extend your power metering system as your data centre activity grows.

This flexibility allows you to optimise design and operating costs and easily adapt to future technological challenges
 

Performing maintenance on equipment in data centres is a real challenge for several reasons:

• Critical infrastructure  provides essential services and any maintenance operation, even if planned, can cause a temporary interruption in services, which can have serious repercussions on the activity of certain applications or businesses.
• Equipment often interacts with other equipment. Working on one piece of equipment can therefore have repercussions for the whole installation.
• The maintenance of data centre equipment requires specific technical skills and therefore depends on the availability of experts.

Our innovative solutions enable you to adopt an optimised maintenance programme for your data centre, so you can anticipate malfunctions and considerably reduce the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) as well as on-site operations.

Data centres are major consumers of energy, particularly due to the continuous operation of servers and the cooling required to keep them running smoothly.

The rapid growth of this industry therefore requires special attention to reduce its environmental impact.

Socomec offers innovative solutions to help reduce the carbon footprint of data centres: precise monitoring and analysis of power consumption, installation of high-efficiency equipment to minimise losses with an extended lifespan, reduction of travel to sites. Discover all our solutions.

Since 15^th May 2024*, and every year thereafter, Member States require Data Centre owners and operators in their respective territories with a power demand of the installed IT of at least 500kW to make the information set out in Annex VII publicly available, except for information subject to Union and national law protecting trade and business secrets and confidentiality, according to the EU Commission delegated regulation EU 14.3.2004.

But compliance shouldn’t be the only motivation. These improvements also make solid commercial and environmental sense, cutting both operational costs and carbon footprints. Operators will need to move swiftly to understand what the new rules mean for Data Centres and to ensure compliance. 

Data centres are amid a seismic shift. When multiple AI systems simultaneously demand high power, it can lead to grid instability, including voltage fluctuations and frequency variations. Affecting not only the AI systems themselves but also having broader implications for any critical infrastructures also reliant on the same power supply. Over the years, Socomec has developed sophisticated technologies and solutions to enhance power stability and reliability, which have now been integrated into our UPS products, providing superior generator support and load management that’s ready for AI applications and Class 1 compliant to IEC- 62040-3.