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PUE 1.07
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Container Park with:
- EATON power infrastructure (UPS + electrical
infrastructure)
- AST Containers and Modular Natural Free Cooling MNFC®
technology
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About THOR:
- Based in Reyjkavik (Iceland).
- Hosting and Cloud Storage provider
- 100% Carbon Neutral Data Center (all power generation is geothermal and
hydro).
- Maximum resiliency: Tier 3
- 18 x IT Container 40´ with 280 racks in total and 4MW IT power. Natural Free
Cooling.
- Ultra low TCO: due to low PUE and very cheap kw/h (€ 0,03), about 70% less
than in continental Europe.
- Redundant Fiber Optic link to continental Europe with 50ms latency.
Electrical consumption in Data Centers
IT systems
38%-63%
Lighting 1%-2%
Air Conditioning
23%-54%
UPSes 6%-13%
Two areas to focus on savings
Energy costs grow between 10% to 25% annually
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The challenge of Free Cooling in Iceland
-Ideal location for Free Cooling: temp year round does not
exceeds 24ºC.
-However, very high content of sulphur in the ambience.
- A study by IBM showed that direct air free cooling (even
with EPA filter) damaged processors after 6 months.
- Direct air intake in Iceland is not possible.
- An alternative technology must be used.
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Natural Free Cooling… not only in
Iceland
-MNFC can provide Free Cooling up to 24ºC.
- 89% of hours in Madrid are below 24ºC (we can achieve PUE 1,11).
- With std. Chiller Free Cooling (CW 7ºC/12ºC) we can only use 25% of the
year-hours!
- Savings in a 500KW IT load Data Center can be of up to € 250k / year!
- ROI is around 18 months!
- The improvement is extraordinary even in non-nordic locations!
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Power room
Cooling
Container
IT Container
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MNFC® System:
Main Advantatges
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No Cross Contamination
80% efficiency
Low pressure drop
100% Sensible cooling transfer
No moving parts
No energy required
No single points of failure
No Maintenance
Patent P201030478
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Technology
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Cooling Operation
15ºC
31ºC
40ºC
22ºC
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Functioning Example
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Natural Free Cooling®
Operational Range
• External temperatures < 19ºC  temperature at the
cold corridor is 24 ºC or lower with no support of
traditional cooling
• 19 ºC < External temperatures < 24 ºC 
temperature at the cold corridor is 24 ºC or lower
WITH evaporative cooling
• External temperatures > 24ºC  chilled water
cooling
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Hours Available
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PUE and Cooling Efficiency
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PHASE 1 deployed:
IT container:
• 17 racks @ 14kW/rack
NATURAL FREE COOLING container
SERVICES room:
• EATON UPS, model 9390M, 2 x 160 kVA (2n)
• 2 x Genset 225 kVA (n+1)
• ATS, Main Switch Boards
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EATON 9390M UPS
Main advantages:
SERVICES room
- Scalability and modular for future growth
- Turn key solution, service and maintenance
-ECONOMODE : internal by-pass and 2% power loss
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Scalable power infrastructure
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
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Not just a sketch , but a reality.
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PMDC 40´ Standard: Servers Container configuration
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PMDC 40´ Compact: Container configuration
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Thank you
Pablo Fernandez
Central&East Europe Sales Director
www.ast-global.com