Green Mountain’s data centre, DC1, in Norway, gets Vertiv UPS systems & thermal management solutions
Vertiv, the leading provider of power conditioning and IT infrastructure products, has deployed its UPS (uninterruptible power supplies) systems and thermal management solutions at the Green Mountain’s DC1 data centre running in a former NATO bunker deep into a mountain in the South-Western Norwegian city of Stavanger. Green Mountain is one of the largest data centre service providers in the world – its colocation services are among the best on the planet.
Located at a former NATO facility carved deep in a mountain in Norway, the DC1-Stavanger data centre runs on 100 percent renewable hydropower and is cooled with water from the fjord, which provides a continuous temperature of 8° C all year round. The unique location offers a great advantage in leveraging renewable energy sources and minimising cooling equipment for close-to-zero CO2 operations. However, like all data centres it requires UPS and thermal management systems to maintain optimal uptime.
“For Green Mountain, the sustainability of the products and of the suppliers is a key factor when purchasing new equipment. Vertiv technologies are the most energy efficient I have seen, and this will further improve our overall sustainability which already has an extremely high rating”, said Alexander de Flon Rønning, Green Mountain’s Design & Product Manager. “Sustainability affects everything we do, and sustainability is very important whenever we build new colocation centres and have new features in it. In this context, the compactness of Vertiv systems has hugely helped us in meeting our objective of space austerity because we can’t blast through more of the mountain to make more space for data centre equipment”, added de Flon Rønning.
Giordano Albertazzi, President for Europe, Middle East & Africa at Vertiv, said, “The climate neutral data centre pact, signed by major European cloud and data centre operators, represents the latest commitment from the data centre industry to reduce its environmental footprint. An effective transition to a sustainable and digital future will require both the deployment of new, state-of-the-art data centre facilities and the upgrade of existing sites to harness the latest and most efficient technologies. Vertiv is proud to support this effort”.
After extensive research, Green Mountain executives visited the Vertiv customer experience centres in Italy to see Vertiv technologies in action and test performances in peak conditions. As a result, Green Mountain chose high efficiency Vertiv Liebert PCW chilled water perimeter units, for a total installed cooling capacity of 5 MW. Liebert PCW provides high efficiency standards thanks to a combination of latest technologies and an internal design which optimizes the aerodynamics of all internal components. Vertiv was also chosen as supplier of UPS systems for another project deployed in parallel, providing several Liebert EXL S1 UPS systems, supported with lithium-ion battery backup, a longer-life alternative to traditional VRLA battery systems.
“With several Indian firms focusing on investing in and developing sustainability projects, Vertiv’s collaboration with Green Mountain is another example of how we are headed towards a more environmentally conscious era,” said John Parikh, Vice President, Marketing & Strategy, Vertiv – ANZ, SEA & India. “With our comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading products and our commitment to research & development, Vertiv is well positioned to partner on innovative data center projects, providing our customers with energy efficient and robust solutions, while we ensure our technology matches their pace of growth and innovation”, added Parikh.
According to IRENA (international renewable energy agency), data centres play a pivotal role being at the epicentre of technology innovation, energy efficiency, renewables, and the data economy enabled by digitalisation. Data centre operators like Green Mountain can be taken as a role model to accelerate the sustainable energy transition and pave a path that other power-hungry industries could follow.
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