Cloud Centre

Power Control delivers a critical power infrastructure in under 3 weeks for a new data suite at Cloud Centres, a Tier 3 data centre in Wales.

The solution and results

After being awarded a high profile contract that would require the design and build of an entirely new data suite at their site in Wales, Cloud Centres called upon Power Control to deliver one of the most important aspects of a resilient data centre, the power infrastructure.

Although their customer placed great significance on reliability, they also wanted to ensure that the environmental impacts of drawing such vast amounts of power were alleviated as much as possible. Cloud Centres had to consider this criterion when appointing suppliers.

With the knowledge that Power Control has a substantial sock holding of UPS systems and a history of being able to supply units under limited time scales, Cloud Centres drafted their expertise to deliver the critical infrastructure.

Following a site survey, Power Control recommended x2, 200KW Legrand KeorMOD UPS systems which supplied A and B feeds. Due to the modular architecture of the Legrand units, each rack has built in redundancy as well as an extra module in each should one fail. Resulting in a solution that delivers the maximum amount of resilience and meets and exceeds the requirements of the customer.

With over £10million in stock, Power Control was able to deliver the solutions in three weeks from receiving the order to commissioning the systems before being deployed and installed on site.

As an energy efficient UPS that provides 96.8% efficiency whilst in normal operating mode and 99% efficiency when in ECO mode, the modular technology met the customer’s requirements of delivering data hall with a reduced environmental footprint.

transformerless technology, meaning their critical infrastructure takes up a smaller footprint in the facility.