The exponential growth of digital information has driven the demand for efficient and scalable data center solutions. Due to their long build times and inflexibility, traditional data centers often need help to meet this demand.

Energy PODs (ePODs) offer a disruptive approach to data center construction, delivering speed, efficiency, and scalability. In this evolving landscape, Centiel stands out as the power protection expert, specializing in providing the critical UPS (uninterruptible power supply) and battery systems that form the backbone of these modular data centers.

Centiel's role in ensuring the reliability, compactness, and efficiency of ePODs is paramount, as they provide advanced power protection technology directly to ePOD manufacturers or as part of a comprehensive power solution. The rapid deployment of ePODs ensures quick solutions to the growing data center needs, with Centiel's expertise at the forefront.

ePODs: An essential addition to the modern data center infrastructure

ePODs offer critical power distribution and protection that contain the critical power infrastructure required for a data center, such as UPS, batteries, power distribution, ATS, cooling systems, networking equipment, lighting, and physical security systems. These units can support up to several MW of electrical power and are designed for rapid deployment and seamless integration, significantly reducing lead times compared to traditional data centers.

Efficiency and scalability

The modular nature of ePODs provides exceptional scalability and flexibility. Organizations can deploy these units as needed, ensuring data center capacity grows with demand.

This modular approach improves efficiency by reducing deployment time and resource requirements and empowers organizations to adapt to changing needs. Each ePOD is pre-engineered and fully equipped, minimizing the need for extensive on-site construction. The efficiency of ePODs ensures optimal resource management, reducing the time and effort required for data center setup.

Centiel's expertise in power protection

Centiel's advanced distributed modular UPS and battery technology perfectly complements the ePOD design, enhancing the reliability and performance of these modular data centers. Centiel's StratusPower modular UPS solution is not just an integral part of the ePOD system, but also a guarantee of the essential power protection data centers rely on.

StratusPower's modularity allows for easy expansion; additional UPS modules can be added as data center needs grow, which aligns with ePOD's focus on rapid scalability. The unique built-in redundancy of Centiel’s distributed modular UPS architecture (DARA) ensures continuous operation, as it eliminates any single point of failure in the system.

Using DARA architecture, StratusPower's design prioritizes energy efficiency by using only the power required, reducing energy waste and operating costs. Its modular architecture also simplifies maintenance and mitigates the human error factor by allowing individual modules to be serviced or replaced safely without affecting the entire system.

This ease of service minimizes downtime and ensures continuous operation. In addition, StratusPower can be configured to meet specific requirements, ensuring that each ePOD is tailored to the exact needs of its users, enhancing performance and reliability.

The footprint is a strong constraint on the compactness of the ePOD solutions, so Centiel’s StratusPower achieves the highest power density, over one MW per square meter.

Centiel battery systems integrate seamlessly with other components, such as power distribution, cooling, and networking equipment. This collaborative approach ensures that each ePOD solution, whether Centiel supplies only the power protection components or the entire solution, meets the highest standards of reliability and efficiency.

Applications and use cases

Containerized data centers offer significant advantages in both short-term capital and long-term operational costs, despite limitations such as reduced computing power compared to traditional data centers. They are versatile across a range of applications.

For disaster recovery, containerized data centers can be easily deployed in response to natural disasters, providing reliable recovery sites. They offer an ideal solution for remote project sites, such as construction or mining operations. Mobile data centers are suitable for temporary setups at events, concerts, and conferences. Edge computing acts as a node to process data closer to its source, reducing latency.

Healthcare facilities can use them to provide additional backup and storage for medical imaging and other applications. Because of their scalability, containerized data centers apply to the above scenarios and are relevant to any organization, regardless of size or industry. They also support deployment in large data center environments.

Organizations can build modular data centers to efficiently and cost-effectively scale their IT infrastructure on demand to meet growing IT needs.

Conclusion

The rise of ePODs and containerized data centers marks a significant evolution in the data center industry. These technologies offer faster, more flexible, and cost-effective solutions to meet the growing demands of digital infrastructure. Centiel, with its expertise in power protection, is playing a critical role in this transformation by providing advanced UPS and battery systems that ensure the reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of ePODs.

Centiel's commitment to providing customized power solutions allows data centers to be tailored to specific user requirements, improving performance and reliability.

This blend of cutting-edge power protection technology and personalized service underpins Centiel's pivotal role in shaping the future of data center solutions, addressing the critical need for efficient and scalable infrastructure.