ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Three steps to improved UPS efficiency Chris Cutler, Riello UPS business development manager, explains how improvements in UPS technology enable data centres and other critical sites to keep their energy use in check as they adjust to the ‘new normal’ of shifting demand. limate change has understandably taken something of a back seat in recent months as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. But it remains the biggest challenge facing both the data centre industry and society as a whole. The Covid-19 crisis thrust data centres into the public consciousness more than ever. Organisations across the country relied on the cloud to facilitate remote working in unparalleled numbers. Total worldwide Microsoft Teams users shot up from 20 million to more than 75 million. While a staggering 4.1 billion minutes of virtual
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24 Electrical Review | October 2020
meetings occurred on the platform on a single day in April. And where would we have been without the streaming services, the online gaming and shopping that lightened the lockdown boredom? Many broadband providers reported a 60% surge in weekday web usage. Netflix obtained an extra 16 million subscribers. It’s forecast that many organisations will embrace the move to permanent remote-working. Indeed, a Gartner survey revealed that almost 74% of businesses will encourage more home working. The likely consequences of such a fundamental change in our day-
