$5M in New Orders for PowerHouse Containers

Data Center Knowledge (Aug 24 2009) Construction , Container

1. A number of players in the data center container business have predicted that the new “form factor” would catch on among companies that have run out of space, power or cooling. We’re beginning to see more signs of this, including today’s announcement that Active Power (ACPW) has sold three of its PowerHouse systems to support container-based expansions of brick-and-mortar data centers. The deals are valued at about $5 million, according to Active Power. The PowerHouse packages a flywheel UPS, switchgear, a diesel generator and fuel tanks in a shipping container, and is designed to provide portable power infrastructure to support a data center container packed with servers. (Read Full Article)

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