#Datacenter UPS

[raptorpowersystems]

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[blogaarti]

Data Center UPS Market – Current Trends and Growth Drivers Along with Key Industry Players 2029

As the world becomes increasingly digitalised, the need for data centers is growing rapidly. Data centers help store, distribute, and safeguard cloud data through an intricate and interconnected network. Digital financial transactions, e-commerce, media and entertainment, social media, and several other modern lifestyle staples depend on the presence of a robust cloud data network. In such a scenario, keeping the data centers operational forever is extremely vital. Many market players have to invest in impeccable power management. In such a business environment, the global data center UPS market is exhibiting sound growth prospects. Many organisations are also adopting remote-working models which depend on cloud computing for smooth operations. As these trends are expected to affect all market regions due to paced digitalisation, the demand for data center UPS systems is set to soar.

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 Growing Digital Payment Usage to Create Tremendous Business Outcomes 

In the recent past, digital payments and online backing have increased at an explosive pace. This is due to technological advancements in communications and smartphone technologies. To sustain the stable operation of services and prompt consumer support, many banks and financial organisations are investing in robust data management infrastructure. Such developments are creating healthy demand for data center UPS systems. As payment processes are getting digitalised across both private and public domains, the economic imperative of adopting digital payments has intensified greatly. Moreover, the need for boosting financial inclusion, tax revenue, and end-user service spectrum is growing. To this end, the global data center UPS market expanding rapidly.

 Soaring Entertainment Media Consumption to Skyrocket Global Data Center UPS Market Expansion 

As consumption patterns become more digitalised, the media and entertainment industry is investing heavily in reliable and fast data management services. Most users prefer to stream content in high-quality resolutions and bit rates, the margin for compromise in the quality of data center services. The creation, gathering, and distribution of news, advertising, and entertainment content is growing across the globe. The younger age groups including millennials and gen Z is growing in number and is the biggest contributor to the demand for high-quality digital content. In such a business landscape, the global data center UPS market is poised to grow throughout the forecast period.

 North America to Sustain Market Leadership Amidst High Internet Penetration 

High digital content consumption, coupled with the presence of major market entities is set to sustain North America as the leading data center UPS market region. Major regional economies such as the USA and Canada are actively investing in state of art data center infrastructure. This region is also disaster-prone and susceptible to power outages, which creates a greater need for reliable data management. Moreover, about 75% of the total population in the USA has access to the internet. In this regard, many regional data centers are being set up to provide reliable service 24*7.

 Leading Market Players 

The most competitive players in the global data center UPS market include AEG Power Solutions, General Electric Company, Power Innovations International Inc., ABB Ltd., Clary Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Belkin International Inc., Brainasoft, Delta Electronics Inc., Eaton Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Vertiv Co., Intellipower Inc., Legrand, Panduit Corporation, Shenzhen Kstar Science & Technology Co., Ltd, Schneider Electric SE, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Socomec, and Xiamen Kehua Hengsheng Co., Ltd.

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[rohirric-hunter]

Given my own experience in a data center it's also fairly likely that one of the servers just spontaneously combusted.

#that happened once #well idk if it spontaneously combusted no one was around when the fire started #but one of the trained monkeys came out and was like 'hey theres a fire out on the floor' #i was like 'huh' #so i called in backup and backup didnt want to deal with it so i had them take over my post and went on to the datacenter floor #and what do you know #there was a fire #so i called up security control and i was like 'hey theres a fire here' #and they said 'no there isnt' #and i said 'yes there is' #and they said 'well the alarms not going off' #and i said 'its broke then because im looking at a fire right now' #and they said 'no youre not' #so i hung up on them and called my supervisor and then i found a fire extinguisher and put the fire out myself #and my supervisor got to argue with security control about whether or not there was a fire #thats why he got paid the big bucks #he was a good supervisor. i did not have to wait until he arrived to put the fire out #i put the fire out and when he showed up i said 'there was a fire' and he was like 'okay' #like he just believed me. i didnt have to prove it

[gender-trash]

tempted to make one of those “kill all techbros” “nuke silicon valley” “techies go back where you came from nobody wants you here” posts, wait for it to get a bunch of notes, and then block literally everyone who uncritically liked/reblogged it

#the trashcan speaks #i HATE those posts. #im down to critique Big Tech on a number of levels and happy to discuss gentrification/housing policy #but what im not down for is like. people even jokingly threatening to nuke the area where my parents and i and half my friends live #its just not on. if people even jokingly threaten to kill me i dont care if its because im disabled or trans or work in tech #ALSO in the specific case of ‘go back where you came from’ #1) babygirl thats still xenophobia when you do it 2) i grew up in the south bay??? this IS where i came from #that said i think it would be an enormous net positive for the world if all twitter datacenters were glassed immediately

[pinejay]

technology rly evolves at an insane rate. i swear just yesterday we were just starting to sequence genomes and ppl were saying the amount of data to parse thru was so high it would be a long time before we learned anything. what happened

#i'll be reading an article that just offhand mentions sequencing mitochondrial dna #and i'll be nodding nodding and suddenly hold up. how did they get that data processed what the hell #i literally studied cs and i still haven't internalized the data processing capabilities of the modern age #the concept of everyone easily having a terabyte of harddrive space on their personal computers is wild to me #the thought that there's datacenters out there that somehow fit years of search history of everyone on the planet with internet access #it's completely incomprehensible!

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[deltapowerindia]

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[daisyliu618]

As early as 1993, our company has already cooperated with various major banks to supply the UPS, and so far, we have had about 30 years of experience in serving the banks. For example: 1.Head Office of Agricultural Bank of China: Provide multiple sets of BH-V High-Frequency UPS to computer. 2.Bank of Communications Guangdong Branch: Provide a large MDC to ensure the normal operation of Data Centers. 3.Bank of China: JY Low-Frequency UPS to maintain the normal operation of the working system. 4.China Construction Bank: Provide multiple sets of BH-N High-Frequency UPS with Lithium Battery Package, small size and rack mount, installation is more convenient. ...... #Kotohirasystem #DataCenter #Computer #Bank #China #UPS #Studycase #MDC #industrialups #3phaseups #transformerbasedups #powerbackup #studycase #battery #upssupplier #upsonline #LithiumBatteryPackage #backuppowersystem #onlineups #uninterruptiblepowersupply https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGPvSlPsKe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[reasonsforhope]

"Heat stored underground in caverns can be set aside in Finland’s summer months to be re-used during frigid winters thanks to a state-of-the-art ‘seasonal energy’ storage facility.

Slated for construction this summer near Helsinki, it will be the largest in the world by all standards and contain enough thermal energy to heat a medium-sized city all winter.

Thermal exchange heating systems, like those built underground, or domestic heat pumps, are seen as the most effective way available of reducing the climate-impact of home heating and cooling.

Their function relies on natural forces or energy recycling to cool down or heat up water and then using it to radiate hot or cold energy into a dwelling.

In Vantaa, Finland’s fourth largest city neighboring the capital of Helsinki, the ambitious Varanto seasonal energy storage project plans to store cheap and environmental friendly waste heat from datacenters, cooling processes, and waste-to-energy assets in underground caverns where it can be used to heat buildings via the district heating network whenever it is needed.

In Finland and other Nordic countries, the heat consumption varies significantly between seasons. Heat consumption in the summertime is only about one-tenth of the peak load consumption during the cold winter months.

Varanto will utilize underground caverns equal in space to two Maddison Square Gardens—over a million cubic meters—filled with water heated by this waste heat and pressure that will allow the water to reach temperatures of up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit without the water boiling or evaporating.

“The world is undergoing a huge energy transition. Wind and solar power have become vital technologies in the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy,” says Vantaa Energy CEO Jukka Toivonen.

“The biggest challenge of the energy transition so far has been the inability to store these intermittent forms of energy for later use. Unfortunately, small-scale storage solutions, such as batteries or accumulators, are not sufficient; large, industrial-scale storage solutions are needed. Varanto is an excellent example of this, and we are happy to set an example for the rest of the world.” ...

“Two 60-MW electric boilers will be built in conjunction with Varanto,” adds Toivonen. “These boilers will be used to produce heat from renewable electricity when electricity is abundant and cheap. Our heat-producing system will work like a hybrid car: alternating between electricity and other forms of production, depending on what is most advantageous and efficient at the time.”

... Construction of the storage facility’s entrance is expected to start in summer 2024, while it could be operational as early as 2028."

-via Good News Network, April 12, 2024. Video via VantaanEnergia, March 10, 2024

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[raptorpowersystems]

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[kremlin]

it is really, really funny to see these bush-league never-was dumbfuck crypto losers go out and spend $300k of borrowed money on gray market A100s in an attempt to mine cryptocurrency (which they will have no success with) just solely on the premise that those things are called "GPUs"

i was reading one account of a guy on reddit with a throwaway account freaking out because he bought SXM socket A100s which, like, it was pretty clear his thinking was that because he could manage to put together a embarrassing gamer PC, he would have no trouble with this. even experienced datacenter techs will avoid SXM if they possibly can, that shit is meant to be installed by the vendor, doing it yourself (especially on 300% marked up gray market hardware) is completely bonkers:

if you ever had an AMD cpu back in the day (i remember way back when i had a top of the line phenom 2 lol) you might remember pin sockets:

you had to align all of these incredibly fucking fragile gold pins right above their corresponding hole on the socket, you had to drop it in just perfectly and if you didn't, you absolutely could not nudge it in place otherwise you'd bend a pin and the whole thing is fucked

(i remember fucking one up & freaking out, i had worked at a grocery store all through summer in middle school to buy it, i took it to a jeweler who couldn't fix it, eventually found the pinout, and the pin i bent was unused, by the grace of god)

anyways, SXM is this but a billion times worse. the vendors that sell the server packages have special jigs they use to align them properly, trying to install freehand is just, rofl

and that isn't even the end of the story, if homeboy gets past seating it without fucking a pin up, he'll 100% not torque the cooler down properly, it won't be flush, and the thing will cook itself the moment its powered on

not that any of this matters though, even if all done correctly, the core concept would not work. if you try and run vertex CUDA mining routines on these ""GPUs"", it'll be like trying to make pesto with your garbage disposal. that is how little foresight these people have. lmfao.

[eightyonekilograms]

If Microsoft is telling the truth that its new ARM laptops are finlly ready to compete with the MacBook Air, it kinda feels like the end of the line for x86. Making something which could trade punches with Apple's M chips was its last chance to hang on, and now Microsoft is giving up on them-- meanwhile it's getting replaced in the datacenter by e.g. Graviton and never made it into mobile devices at all.

Still, 50 years ain't a bad run.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Being able to catch your Alexander streams has convinced me to give the free trial of ff14 a try, but oh boy I didn't account for how long it would take to download. I'm looking at a little over 2 hours but I'm very excited to jump in

It's a big game, yeah. And FFXIV is a lot of fun, you just gotta remember that the game is a fairly average-to-mediocre MMO for the first 50 hours or so, and it isn't until you hit the expansions that it begins to really take off as a solo experience.

100% find people to carry you. If you're on the European datacenter you can hit up The Brick Wall on Spriggan which is the FC I founded and there will probably be a few people happy to help speed you through the early parts.

#tb answers #final fantasy xiv #ff14

[roegadynroost]

Hello! I'm really impressed with you speed running all of your alts to get the Regalia! Would you mind sharing any tips or tricks that got you through so much ARR fast? - A fellow alt-happy Eorzean

Oh wow hey! Thanks for the ask!

One REALLY big help is doing stuff on the New and Prefered servers because the Road to 80 buff is just WAY TOO GOOD. I'm working on the story on some alts and by the end of ShB, only doing the story, I can get about 3 jobs to 80. If you have character on congested servers that you don't mind moving around you can move them to a new or preferred server for FREE and get the Road to 80 buff for 30 days (It lasts longer on characters made directly on those servers tho.)

There are some bits that I like to watch on every run through, but skipping the cutscenes is an obvious must. I play on PS4, and put on a show while I grind most of the time.

If you have the road buff, when you get to dungeons, instead of queueing in the Dutyfinder set up a Partyfinder for your dungeons. I always set them to one slot other that myself, and then set the minimum ILV to 500. This will ensure only higher level players will join.

Into the description type: "Unsynced for MSQ progression." or "Unsyned, help me get my alt through MSQ?"

Players are usually happy to help folks working through the MSQ. This works on every Datacenter.

If you don't speak Japanese and you have an alt on the JP servers and you want quick clears, use the auto translate feature for the phases "Unrestricted party" and "Main Scenario Quest". Also if you don't speak Japanese, Auto translation "Nice to meet you" at the start and "Thank you" at the end of duties.

Make sure you set your DF to Unrestricted before you queue so you don't accidentally queue up regularly instead and always \readycheck before you go in.

Most dungeons with a LV 90 player are less than five mins and a lot of the time they won't even roll on the gear so you get good upgrades along the way. If they rush through and you don't have time to grab all the chests you can always \return at the end to get the chests that were not grabbed. If there are mobs still in the dungeon, don't worry, if you sprint and kite them you can grab everything before they kill you, then respawn and leave through the exit at the start or the menu.

The ONLY duties I don't do Unsynced for is for Castrum Meridianum, Praetorium and Porta Decumana, because with they force cut scenes even if you do it unsynced I don't like to ask people to sit through them so I just do them normally.

IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS JUST AS THEM FOR HELP UNSYNCING. I love helping my friends unsync stuff. Hell, I love helping anyone unsync stuff. Takes very little time.

If you don't have the road buff, make sure you do your leveling roulette, and queue for the dungeons. Unfortunately, the end of ARR has a LV jump around the time you get to the Rhytahtyn solo instance and if you skip duties you'll likely be underleveled.

A few characters I ended up having to run through Aurum Vale to get to 50 just so I could get through the final strech of stuff. I love Aurum Vale personally, but I know it's not everyones jam.

Buy a stack of cheap food early on so you can keep your 3% exp buff going. My personal favorites are Eggs, Orange juice and Plums.

DON'T FORGET We get Vesperbay tickets on new characters now to returning to the waking sands is no issue. They recently updated it to you get 99 total over the course of ARR. If you made a character BEFORE they added the Vesperbay Teleportation Tickets, don't run from Horizon, Teleport to Limsa Lominsa, go to the Arcanist guild via the aethernet and then take the Ferry to Vesperbay. It's pretty quick on PS4, if you're on a Toaster it might be faster to go from Horizon because of less loading.

I recommend stopping by Camp Tranquil to get your Chocobo the ability to fight (My Fiestly little Chocobo) when you hit 30. Also grab a stack of 99 Gysahl greens when you're at Bent Branch doing that. You don't have to finish the quest to be able to summon you chocobo, so if you're in a rush there is that. I always level my chocobos in Healing first. IMO Choco cure is the most useful chocobo ability early on.

Don't forget to do your job quests, a lot of them will sync up with stuff you're doing in the MSQ, and when you get to 45 the gear boost is substantial even if it's only useful for those few levels to 50. DPS can probably get away with ignoring it, but for tanks and healers GEAR IS SO IMPORTANT, especially if you're not unsyncing stuff.

You get some upgrades from the story but the ARR stuff is all normal quality, it's not the greatest. There is a Jeweler NPC in Ul'dah that I recommend grabbing accessories from, cause I've had times where I'm 50 and still have dang LV5 ring cause the MSQ doesn't give any accessories and if your RNG is bad in dungeons it can be pretty bad. (you will get a acessory from unlocking AV though, that is nice!)

If you have some of the preorder earrings, make sure you visit your the mail moogle for that. If you've been playing a long time and have stuff like the Tidus and Yuna outfits from fanfest that get sent to every character, Grab those outfits too. They're good at the early levels and give a pretty good EXP boost to lvl 30. (Don't recommend wearing them in dungeons past like the first three though)

Of course, most important of all. Take care of yourself. I've been dealing with long-covid for years now and if causes me no end of issues, but I can get into the zone and focus hard with MSQ grinds. Self care is so important. I'm pretty good about getting up and stretching and getting myself what I need, but sometimes I'm in the zone and it gets bad. I am lucky I have a partner that helps me keep up with that stuff too. If he gets up to move around and go somewhere, I usually take that as my time to give myself a break.

Setting myself a little 3 hour timer for water breaks is something I'm working on and seems to be good. I try to not keep too much food around my gaming area because if I'm going to eat something I'd like to get up and move around too. If I do keep something nearby, I try to have fruit and not like snacks. Doesn't always work but trying is important.

I hope that in here somewhere you find something useful! HAPPY ALT-ing!!!

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[rinofwater]

Yo, I legit want to hear your data disk theory bc I was kinda thinking the same thing? Except I figured that if they really are magnetic hard disks then they'd be even more fragile than DVDs/CDs since even a stray magnet could screw up all the data? I am but a lowly software person so I don't exactly how storage mediums work all too much lol. Also, if the old world was really DA FUTURE(tm), wouldn't their computer storage be more in SSDs than HDDs? There might be an economic reason to stick with HDDs but if their computing tech was at the level of sentient AIs and stuff they hypothetically would have the faster, more compact storage in those...

Reminds me of the deep dive I did to figure why the hell telegraphs in the My Time world are called telegraphs if they're supposedly wireless (short answer: it's probably primitive radio? i have no idea how the hell transmissions can work at distances up to cross-country tho)

Oh boy, I'm so glad you asked! I've done IT infrastructure repair work for a couple years now, and my last job actually had me working with a lot of storage servers in particular for the latter half of my job, so I have Opinions(tm) on this small detail lol. And those are all really good questions too. And hopefully I don't get too technical trying to answer it, but I make no promises (and it's DEFINITELY going to be long and rambly so bear with me)

So starting with it being The Future(tm), there are pros and cons to going HDD versus SSD versus NVMe today, but did you know that not only is tape storage still in use, but it's actually still considered a modern, practical solution to archival storage with the technology still being upgraded and developed, even right now in 2023? Archival in this case being the sort of data you need to hold onto for 20, 30, 40 years or more without a constant need to have read/write access to that data. The tape servers have a cool robot arm in them and everything to move the tape cassettes around. A lot of this technology isn't actually aging out because it has its niche, it's just being modernized to settle it more in that niche

So with HDDs versus SSDs, they are becoming fairly comparable to each other today, HDD was winning out for a long time because SSD was a lot more expensive to get ahold of at the same storage capacity as HDD. That's great from a regular end-user perspective because you can get that upgrade more practically and reap the benefits of not having to rely on physical moving parts to access your data. Swapping it out on a server level is going to be a much larger and more expensive project, though, without seeing a lot of additional benefit for going that direction. A lot of the benefits that you would see for swapping to SSD on a regular computer have already been accounted for in existing server designs for a while now, in the form of RAID technology (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks; fancy way of saying "get a bunch of drives to take on the work of one drive and then replace any drives that break along the way"; being able to share the data load across multiple drives improves efficiency and then you can also replace broken disks on the fly without having to worry about the integrity of the overall storage system as long as you don't sit on too many dead disks for too long)

Not to say that SSDs won't still overtake HDD eventually, as new servers are installed in datacenters and closets, they're increasingly having SSD as the supported format, but there's not a good enough benefit to rush through fading out HDD at the moment when they're still about comparable to each other and the weaknesses have largely been accounted for. And even then, there are always going to be legacy servers that get passed up for upgrades either because nobody sees a need or it's too important to the overall infrastructure or any number of reasons, at which point they're still almost definitely going to be sticking with HDDs even in The Future

So that's the long-winded justification for why I think it's plausible that there would still be large enough quantities of HDDs kicking around even in the future for them to end up in ruins of that future

As for the justification of how you'd be able to get enough usable data off of them given the notorious fragility of those disks, I chalk it up to a matter of quantity. When I was installing brand-new storage servers for a customer, one drawer could hold up to around a hundred hard drives, and there were often four or five drawers slated for install with one server. If you figure that your average HDD has about three to six platters, multiply that by 100, and then multiply that by the drawers, and then the number of identical hardware setups that are also set up around it, and that number just keeps going up by orders of magnitude. Most of those platters are absolutely going to be shattered or wiped or otherwise damaged in a way that renders them useless, and the percentage that make it out in-tact enough is going to be very small. But if you take a very small percentage of the ridiculously large number of platters you can expect to find in a datacenter (even the smaller ones) is still going to give you the chance of finding enough usable platters that you can pull something off of them. Like, we're talking millions or billions of platters just in one place, if you take .01% or .001% or even .0001% of that kind of number as your chances of finding something in tact you're still looking at a fairly decent pool of workable salvage to sort through*

(*In theory, anyway; in practice, you usually need all the platters that are associated with an HDD to be able to put the data together into something usable given the way data's distributed across them...not that it's impossible to grab information off of a single platter but it would take A LOT of extra work to figure out how to reverse engineer it into working versus having the full set. It could still be possible but that factor drags the already small percentage down even further. But then, I would be surprised if Pathea has given it NEARLY as much thought as this, so after a certain point, there's kinda just the shrugging to say "video game logic" lol...but before reaching that point I'm going to have my fun spending way too much time trying to figure out how it *could* work)

With the quantity argument, as well, you're also way more likely to see that kind of overabundance of HDD than you would DVDs or CDs; DVDs just aren't scalable in the same way, both in terms of the amount of data they can store and the amount of read/write flexibility they have. You're also a lot less likely to find the sort of information on a DVD that you would find in a storage server; DVDs are more useful for executable programs than they are for data storage, and even that purpose is superceded by a usb thumb drive a lot of the time. There wouldn't be nearly as many to account for in an apocalypse situation and that means the statistics are going to hit them much harder

Anyway, yeah, that's my nerdy ass supposition for this headcanon, thanks again for giving me an excuse to ramble on about it and I hope it makes sense lol

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