Digital transformation and data storage demands are impacting businesses across all sectors, driving a significant need for specially developed spaces to house providers and strategic information.
This increases the demand for infrastructure, connectivity, power, air conditioning, physical security, and a highly skilled operations team, especially in Brazil, where the use of outsourced data centers is relatively new.
Growth of the Brazilian market
According to studies by Frost & Sullivan, the Brazilian data center market is expected to grow about 15% annually and reach US$ 1.3 billion by 2020. Globally, this market is projected to exceed US$ 174 billion by 2018, according to Technavio.
Critical energy demands
Since data centers operate 24 hours a day, every day of the year, they cannot afford any interruption in power supply, even for a few seconds. Any failure in this resource can compromise everything from financial transaction processing, website operations, information storage, to even the functioning of cooling systems that keep equipment at the right temperature.
Impact of outages
To understand the importance of power for data centers, data from Emerson Network Power indicates that a single hour of power interruption can cause losses ranging from US$ 84 thousand to US$ 108 thousand for companies. If the interruption lasts a whole day, this amount can reach US$ 686 thousand per company.
Temporary power solutions
This is precisely why most data centers adopt redundant power generation systems to ensure that any failure in the main system is quickly resolved and does not compromise operations. One of the most effective and economical solutions is the use of power generators ranging from 45 kVA to 2,250 kVA. On standby, these generators only activate when there is a power outage and transition automatically without any fluctuation.
Companies operating data centers also use temporary generators to perform maintenance on their own equipment or to increase capacity in case of higher demand. Tecnogera is one of the companies serving this sector, offering special generator sets for data centers, with low noise emissions and maximum energy efficiency.
