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WP#16-Quantitative Analysis of Power Distribution Configurations for Data Centers

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This analysis builds on the previously released “Qualitative Analysis of Power Distribution Configurations For Data Centers.” It takes a quantitative look at one aspect of the previous paper -- efficiency. This paper studies the end-to-end efficiency of eight simplified, non-redundant data center power distribution configurations. The data shows that a data center with optimized implementations of all of the topologies achieve approximately 25% higher efficiency than a typical data center of 10 years ago, delivering between 85% and 90% end-to-end efficiency over a wide load range. The highest efficiency AC and DC configurations are within 1% to 2% of each other and are only 2% to 3% better than double conversion 480Vac – 208Vac over the majority of the load range. No single configuration provides the highest efficiency at every load.

Best treatment of power delivery question

This is the best treatment of the whole "power delivery system" question there is. A truly vendor neutral assessment that shows all the modern systems to be within a few percent of each other.

Posted at 06:07 AM on April 09, 2009 by mark monroe

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