Data centres

When power management is essential, Socomec has the expertise to guarantee the performance of your electrical installations. By delivering the most innovative solutions and services for your precise requirements, we help to ensure the power availability and energy performance of your data centre. Whether you’re a data centre manager or owner, our expert advice and innovative solutions will help you get your electrical installation running at optimum efficiency, so you can meet your energy targets.

Operational continuity is a major challenge for data centres, particularly as demand continues to grow and architectures become more complex. 
Outages can have disastrous effects, both for the site operator and for service users.
For the operator, this could mean substantial financial losses, damage to property or a damaged reputation. For users, outages can lead to data loss and corruption of files in the process of being written. The main cause of outages in data centres is linked to the power supply. However, 80% of these outages can be anticipated and sometimes even avoided if the right reflexes are adopted when designing the electrical architecture of data centres, by choosing the right solutions.  For example, it is essential for the operator of a data centre to optimally manage its lithium-ion batteries. 

To remain competitive, data centres need to reduce their operating costs without compromising on performance. 
Rationalisation of the infrastructure, optimisation of energy consumption, and integration of innovative technologies to improve performance are some of the ways to stay in the race. 
Socomec offers innovative solutions that enable tangible savings to be made while ensuring optimum performance. 
In particular, they make it possible to measure the data centre’s PUE (power usage effectiveness), significantly reduce UPS losses, and take advantage of energy storage to consume more efficiently.

The rise of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and big data is forcing data centres to adapt quickly to meet growing capacity and performance requirements. 
In this context, facilities need to be increasingly flexible and responsive.

With our scalable solutions, you can add power modules to your UPS or extend your power metering system as your data centre activity grows.

This flexibility allows you to optimise design and operating costs and easily adapt to future technological challenges.
 

Performing maintenance on equipment in data centres is a real challenge for several reasons:

• Critical infrastructure  provides essential services and any maintenance operation, even if planned, can cause a temporary interruption in services, which can have serious repercussions on the activity of certain applications or businesses.
• Equipment often interacts with other equipment. Working on one piece of equipment can therefore have repercussions for the whole installation.
• The maintenance of data centre equipment requires specific technical skills and therefore depends on the availability of experts.

Our innovative solutions enable you to adopt an optimised maintenance programme for your data centre, so you can anticipate malfunctions and considerably reduce the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) as well as on-site operations.

>Data centres are major consumers of energy, particularly due to the continuous operation of servers and the cooling required to keep them running smoothly.

The rapid growth of this industry therefore requires special attention to reduce its environmental impact.

Socomec offers innovative solutions to help reduce the carbon footprint of data centres: precise monitoring and analysis of power consumption, installation of high-efficiency equipment to minimise losses with an extended lifespan, reduction of travel to sites. Discover all our solutions.