The HP/Eaton joint DOE project will be very compact and will be designed to fit into an existing data center—rather than replacing or expanding a data center. This container will be in 100kW increments and can be distributed over a four, six, or eight rack setup (the cooling unit adds another two racks to those numbers) ranging from 12.5kW in the eight-rack configuration up to 25kW per rack in the four-rack configuration.

The flexibility of where this can be deployed is a noteworthy point. As long as power and water are made available, this solution can go into a raised floor environment, into a remote office site, co-lo, or even onto a concrete slab.

This solution would lead to better use of existing data centers, making portions more efficient from the IT equipment through to cooling, since the DOE project will be self-contained with power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.25 or lower. The entire system can be configured-to-order with the software, hardware, power and cooling systems ready to go—so that it can just be rolled into place and turned on.

All that combined means that the DOE project will be a very compact, highly-efficient, easily deployed IT to power to cooling solution for existing data centers, co-located environments, or remote sites.

Ron Mann
HP
Director Engineering, Rack & Power Infrastructure

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