Power management Eaton will supply electricity distribution and power quality systems to the Tier III ROOT data center in Montreal, Canada.

The colocation provider has contracted Eaton to install a Power Xpert 9395 uninterruptible power system (UPS) and Remote Power Panel (RPP) in its bid to keep a rein on rising utility costs.

The installation makes ROOT’s data center the first colocation facility in Montreal to try using a high density 415/240-volt power management platform.

The US$20m, Tier III facility, is located 15 minutes from central Montreal, is using its low power consumption as a key selling point to potential clients.

The RPP systems deliver 30 kW of power to each rack within ROOT Data Center’s colocation facility and Eaton’s installation engineers have been instructed to configure it to cut power distribution costs by at least 20%, with a target increase in data center efficiency of 10% more than other local colocation providers.

The facility will use Eaton’s 9395 UPS to provide as a power back up and to create scalable runtimes.

According to Eaton the 9395 can operate at 99% efficiency with a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.2.

Features of the system include the Energy Saver System (ESS), which is now standard with the vendor’s Energy Advantage Architecture.

ROOT claims it will pass the benefits of its power savings back to its customers, as part of its strategy to be a disruptive element in the next generation data center colocation market.

Eaton’s general manager of the power quality division in Canada Umesh Patel said; “when aggressively targeting high efficiency in a colocation facility, you need advanced power management”.