Liquid Web Continues Drive with Energy Efficiency

Lansing, MI., Mar. ninth, 2022  –  Liquid Web has been presented with the “Million Kilowatt Hour Efficiency Partner” Award for the third, consecutive 12 months. That is, partially, as a consequence of the PACE program that allowed the installation of highly efficient HVAC systems, but so way more is involved.

In 2018, Liquid Web began the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) project. This allowed us to interchange the old, inefficient HVAC units at our largest data center in Lansing with a contemporary, energy-efficient system that takes advantage of Michigan’s climate to assist reduce energy consumption.  

The project led to March 2020, however the fine-tuning had just begun. “It’s a multi-faceted approach for continuous improvement of energy efficiency,” said Scott Haraburda, Sr. Director of Facilities at Liquid Web. “When the PACE install was complete, other projects corresponding to superb tuning temperature sensor data, detailing rack isolation, raising the info center temperature, and examining the general load were well underway.” Actually, superb tuning and isolation work in any respect Liquid Web data centers continues today because as recent servers and equipment are installed, the info center evolves over time. “It takes a dedicated Facilities Team, like ours at Liquid Web, to make sure proper HVAC management,” Haraburda continued. 

Within the time because the PACE project ended, Liquid Web has accomplished quite a few energy efficiency-related projects corresponding to replacing old Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) with modern units, leading to 26% efficiency gains and a rise within the temperature of all data centers. As well as, many other HVAC and electrical projects proceed to drive efficiency. These projects are very much the variety of ‘behind the scenes’ work that our data center teams do on daily basis. “With every project, we glance for methods to eliminate single points of failure and improve the general final result, which is uptime for our customers. We worry concerning the power and cooling, so that they don’t need to. This mentality is carried through all of the teams that operate in the info center,”  Haraburda said.

Constant collaboration with teams corresponding to Facilities, Networking, DCO, Purchasing, Product, and Engineering resulted in equipment being properly designed and never being over or undercooled, which might waste energy.  Data Center Teams even have a more holistic understanding of the systems involved with operating modern, efficient data centers.  

As Liquid Web looks to 2022 and beyond, planning continues for increased density, higher server hardware, elimination of power-hungry equipment and practices, and way more continuous improvement from all teams involved.  

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