GE said that the new system can lower facility costs for equipment, real estate and energy, reducing the total cost of ownership by 30 to 50%.
Paul Foody, global product general manager of GE’s electrical business, said: “Data centers are using an increasingly larger share of the world’s total electricity. Recognizing this trend, our alliance combines the best attributes, technologies and skills of our organizations to help data centers deliver significant energy savings.”
As part of the agreement, Validus and GE will jointly promote the DC Data Center System.
Rudy Kraus, CEO of Validus DC Systems, based in Brookfield, CT, said: “Data center and telecommunications facility managers demand greater reliability from their infrastructure while driving hard to reduce the total cost of operations.
“Our alliance, and consequently the DC Data Center System, meets this market demand by delivering a highly reliable direct current system designed for the requirements of today’s most demanding data center and telecommunications environments.”
