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Article: Monitoring branch circuits in data centers: branch circuit monitors, combined with web-based data acquisition systems, provide a huge benefit to data center operators.(VDV World)
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- Electrical Contracting Products
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- January 1, 2005
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With the dramatic increase in the use of the Internet as the backbone for corporate and personal communications, there is a growing demand for data centers that serve as centralized locations for hosting servers and ancillary equipment. These centers may be developed exclusively for a single client or may serve multiple clients by providing hosting services for servers. A key element to all data centers is the need to monitor the electrical loading for each server rack to ensure that the current load does not exceed the breaker capacity and cause the unit to "trip" or go off-line.
Technical background
Data center managers are faced with the challenge of ...