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Why Does Your Data Centre Depend On Diesel?
Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 23 2011)
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Why does your data centre rely on diesel? You may not think about this, but if you have a data centre, rent space in one, or use services housed in one, you are – with virtually 100 percent certainty – relying on a diesel generator.
I’m talking about back-up and recovery power here, of course, but it’s a topical subject. All data centres have some sort of back-up power, and that is usually a diesel generator or genset.
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