IT'S TIME TO GET SMART WITH DATA CENTERS

The continued expansion of both corporate and individual computer, internet and mobile device usage has led to a dramatic increase in the amount of needed data center capacity. Stand alone data centers have become the default delivery method for computing power as a result of the popularity of rack mounted servers, increasing usage of blade servers, and utilization of virtualization. Data centers rely on an immense amount of power to operate, and cool, their servers, data storage and communications equipment. With the exponential growth of the industry, smart designs for efficient use of power and reliable cooling are necessary.

Today’s snowflake model for data center owners is often the approach of a non-repeatable project solution. These custom built data center are built using a variety of components from various providers that may or may not be integrated, and certainly are not integrated together as one high performance system. This is particularly true with the cooling and power components. These custom solutions are difficult and expensive to integrate in the field. Some builders are able to invest in this incremental expense and time to ensure that their data centers are completely integrated, however many are not. This leads to widely reported Power Useage Effectiveness (PUE) of the average data center being in excess of 1.8. Piecemeal components brought together into several individual functions for data center operation leave immense amounts of efficiencies and optimization opportunities on the table, costing data center owners hundreds of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of their unit, and results in lower reliability cooling for high performance needs. With a short sited project focus and desire merely to minimize first costs, many necessary efficient solutions are not integrated into the overall project scheme. One of the most glaring examples of this can be found with data centers that still utilize inefficient air cooled chilled water solutions leading to much higher energy usage.

Data Centers, Meet the Experts in Cooling, Packaging and Power

TAS Energy formed its Modular Data Center segment to focus our packaging and integration skills on the unique needs of this market’s large use of energy and cooling. With a vast majority of the non-computer energy usage being dedicated to the cooling solutions, TAS Energy’s ability to optimize and reduce the total life cycle costs of the cooling infrastructure provides high value to the owners and operators of data centers. TAS Energy has provided over 900,000 tons of cooling for projects around the world in a packaged, modular, repeatable, pretested manner. We have spent thousands of engineering hours on integrating our cooling solutions with power modules to interact with a data center’s infrastructure in the most optimized manner, and have even developed a purpose built modular product to integrate the infrastructure, power module and cooling solution as one optimized system for highest efficiencies and lowest life cycle costs.  TAS Energy has successfully partnered with all various construction stakeholders such as general contractors, mechanical contractors/engineers, and design build firms to meet the end customers’ complex needs for data centers.

Revolutionizing the Industry

Built According to Demand at the Lowest Cost

A modular packaged approach to data center solutions allows for flexibility in the deployment and layout of the unit’s utility plant. The traditional method for building data centers has required owners and operators to build very large scale data centers to share the cost of engineering each unique center across a large capital investment. In addition, the density of energy usage on the data center floor has driven the need for power and cooling to increase tremendously. The increase in density requires that data centers built today have the capability to add incremental cooling and power capacity over the life of the plant, making modular solutions a much more flexible and costs effective method to deliver power and cooling needs.

By deploying data center power and cooling solutions in modular steps that are independent of building infrastructure, data center developers can deploy their resources in a phased manner, allowing the supporting infrastructure to match the computing capacity. In addition, if future capacity needs do not occur, this phased approach will reduce the risk of wasted capital.

By investing in TAS Energy’s modular system(s), our customers are able to take advantage of a high efficiency design that matches their current need, with the ability to add more modules as demand increases, without the high costs associated with the traditional full utility build out. Infrastructure is one of the key reasons that many data centers have high PUE’s, therefore the matching of power and cooling capacity to demand leads to an improved overall energy usage. This also has a dramatic impact on schedule delivery as customers are able to receive what they need quickly, rather than more (and unneeded) equipment that may require a longer delivery time.

Guaranteed Performance and Reliability

Traditionally, as complex systems are engineered and built, the risk of system performance remains with the facility owner and operator. As a modular systems provider, TAS Energy is able to provide system level guarantees which can be verified by a combination of factory and field testing. We factory test our units to confirm quality and completeness earlier in the build cycle and much closer to the location of the error, thus reducing schedule delay and minimizing correction costs. Our designs allow for flexibility according to unique customer requirements, while ensuring we don’t reinvent an already well proven wheel. This allows us to save project schedule time and enhance the quality of the final product by beginning with a system that has been pre-engineered, built, and in many cases proven in the field- customized to meet your specific site requirements. This process allows you to benefit from the collective experience we’ve gained from each of our previous projects, and helps ensure greater product quality.

Industry Leading Installation Schedule

TAS Energy’s products for the data center industry are designed to be built and pretested in our 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas. Assembly in a controlled environment, rather than at the delivery site (‘in the field’) guarantees the quickest installation schedule with maximum risk reduction. Field construction exposes many projects to delivery delays due to unfavorable weather conditions mixed with the complexity of assembling systems from many individual components all needing to arrive at the right time for construction, and the risk of temporary workers hired simply to assemble your system… a system they have never built before. At TAS Energy, your unit is assembled, inspected and tested at our facility, by trained factory personnel employed year around. TAS Energy’s four business units all share the same high quality building standards allowing optimum utilization of our manufacturing facility and personnel.

A result of repeating our pre-engineered designs is a strong and streamlined relationship with our supply chain. Components are delivered to our weather controlled facility, assembled and tested before being sent to your site as a working unit, ensuring the quickest delivery time with guaranteed performance in the industry. Choosing TAS Energy’s Modular Data Center products not only means hundreds of thousands of dollars saved through efficiency, but also increased profit through a quicker start up time, with the peace of mind of guaranteed performance and reliability.  Choosing TAS Energy’s Modular Data Center products not only means hundreds of thousands of dollars saved through efficiency, but also increased profit through a quicker start up time, with the peace of mind that comes with guaranteed performance and reliability.