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In the fast-moving data center business, the formula for colocation providers’ on-going success consists of providing customers compute infrastructure that is quickly deployed, scalable and reliable, without compromising safety, quality or tying up excess cash flow. The traditional “stick built” approach to constructing data centers – which involves many months of serial planning, scheduling, and inefficient construction cycles – is less realistic for staying competitive and meeting business demands. In order to address these time-to-market and construction challenges, more and more colocation providers are turning to modern, modular data center approaches. Also referred to as prefabricated modules or skids, the concept of modular building blocks of power, cooling and compute capacity has been around for more than a decade. However, as business demands have evolved during the current era of the Internet of Things and Big Data, interest in these modular building blocks of data cent...

Originally constructed in 1948, Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center, a 25-bed critical-access hospital opened its doors in 1950 in the small farming and retirement community of Odessa, Washington—just 72 miles west of Spokane. As the only local hospital for 30 miles around, Odessa Memorial serves 2,500 citizens in Odessa and the surrounding area. Over the years, Odessa Memorial expanded its capabilities, adding a rooftop helipad and a nursing home. By 2006, though, the pneumatic control system had outlived its useful life, and the hospital needed a cooling system. Expanding with minimum cost impact Schneider Electric met with hospital officials and proposed a performance contract that would help finance the necessary improvements. In addition to incorporating system design, construction, and commissioning, this turnkey solution guarantees the energy savings typically generated by replacing or upgrading building systems. A performance project is funded in a variety of ways, includi...

The impressive growth trajectories forecasted for electric vehicles (EV), battery technologies and digitization present both unparalleled opportunities and unprecedented challenges for auto manufacturers, consumers, fleet operators, electric utilities, oil & gas companies and other key industry stakeholders. For vehicle manufacturers, there are large groups of customers who, by moving to EV truck fleets, for example, can cut their vehicle operational and maintenance costs by up to 50%. On the other hand, it is not easy for auto manufacturers to flip a switch from producing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to EVs. Factory physical infrastructures will need to modernize, and manufacturing lines for both types of vehicles will need to be maintained for quite a few years. For electrical utilities, a robust network of EV charging stations represents a major opportunity for selling more electricity to consumers and for increasing grid efficiencies with new access to more sto...