Inside Capgemini's free-cooled datacentre
Summary: ZDNet UK has toured Merlin, Capgemini's sustainable, modular, energy-efficient 10,000-square-foot datacentre that has plans to be scaled up to three times that capacity
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Here is where power is supplied to the racks. Each fully-loaded module can draw down a maximum power load of 232kW.
The facility is currently being certified by the Uptime Institute as a Tier 3 facility. This requires the facility to have multiple redundant capacity components and multiple distribution paths serving the computer equipment, hence the two separate power cables.
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