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diesel generator with sustainable solutions such as capacity and move it to wherever it is needed.
hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen generators or even That’s where the complexity and flexibility of
micro-nuclear generators. current distribution systems come into play.”
Overhead busways that feed power to specific
Rosendin Vice President of Engineering Ron server rows, allowing flexibility for server refresh, is
Wilson, who has been involved with data center one distribution strategy.
engineering for more than 25 years, says that in
terms of electrical loads, many of the larger data Higher temperatures produced by modern
centers require as much power as a small city. servers are another challenge in engineering data
centers. “Placing coolers that are localized at the
Controls play as integral a role today as redundant server rack, rather than cooling an entire room,
systems do, according to Wilson. “Controls and is becoming more common in high-density data
monitoring have become huge because data centers today,” Wilson says. 
center users want to be able to monitor their

“Most power redundancy today is compartmentalized,

whereas 20 years ago, you may have seen the designs with

all the power for the data center within one block, these

days, that power distribution is sectionalized, so that one

issue doesn’t impact the entire facility.”

-Ron Wilson, VP Engineering, Rosendin

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