According to research power costs accounts for 40% of data center capital expenditures. Research also shows that outages cost over $9,000 per minute*. Reduce downtime and manage power usage with ABB products.
Data centers are vital to companies since they store critical applications and information needed to keep companies operational. It’s imperative for a company to keep them operational and avoid any potential downtime that could disrupt the flow of business. With technology consistently advancing, our electrical components are more sophisticated, yet highly susceptible to transient surges. Data centers typically consume high levels of energy from power equipment such as transfer switches to multiple remote power panels providing power to processing equipment to keep them running efficiently. This consumption increases the threat of a transient surge. Research has shown that 80% of transient surges occur internally within a building, while only 20% are external (e.g., lightning or power grid switching from the utility company). The downtime cost of an average company has been estimated at $740, 357 per outage**.