NextFort Ventures Chandler Picks Cummins Distributed Power Systems for Modular Data Centers

NextFort Ventures Chandler, a modular data center operator, picked Cummins for providing highly efficient distributed redundant backup power systems in its new 180,000 square foot data center.

The new data center, due to be opened in March, 2013, requires distributed parallel configuration and advanced control systems for power and cooling systems.

To deploy these capabilities, NextFort selected Cummins as it is well experienced in the provision of diesel and gas-powered generator sets, transfer switches and paralleling systems that enable standby, emergency power, prime power, peak power, distributed power and co-generation.

The Cummins generators will be deployed in five megawatt N+1 redundant distributed parallel generator set cluster configurations of five generators each. Each customer will benefit from their own turnkey, financial grade data center solution which offers a completely self-contained environment.

Also, customers can leverage the flexibility and scalability features to deploy modular units of data center capacity to enhance their businesses and customer-facing services. Maximum energy efficiency throughout the data center can be realized by this deployment, said officials.

The Phase 1 launch of the new NextFort data center, which will feature 130,000 sq. ft. of NextFort high-density computing suites or NextFort HCS, will be opened in March. The data centers are self-contained, concrete and steel rooms that can optimally house up to 20 high-density IT racks for a total IT load of up to 225KW.

The data centers can be expanded further to 50,000 square feet of modular data center space to accommodate additional HCSs, added officials.

Recently, NextFort Ventures Chandler announced plans to deploy highly efficient uninterruptible power systems (UPS) from Toshiba International Corporation. These will be installed in NextFort’s new 180,000 square foot data center in Chandler, AZ. The power systems are the Toshiba (News - Alert) G9000 UPS, Toshiba’s flagship series.