September 2008
Emerson is building a multi-million dollar data center on the company’s St. Louis campus that will help support their global operations.
The 35,000-square-foot facility, scheduled to open next summer, will use the latest technologies from Emerson Network Power. The new data center will serve as a showcase for other data center developers facing the same challenge: using the significant energy these facilities require as efficiently as possible while achieving 100 percent reliability on a massive scale.
The new facility will feature numerous Emerson Network Power products from brands such as Aperture, ASCO, Knurr, Liebert and those that are present in the data centers of the Fortune 100 companies.
These technologies and the overall design of the facility will help Emerson use 17.5 percent less energy per year than the traditional data center, according to Fox Architects, the lead designers in the project.
The energy-saving features include a solar array on the building’s roof that will be used as a source of power, daylighting features, and a reduced building footprint. Emerson will also implement strategies recommended in Emerson Network Power’s Energy Logic plan to yield additional energy savings, putting into practice what Emerson advises its customers to do every day.
“We hope this showcase data center will help other companies meet this challenge,” said Lee. “Operating efficient data centers is in the best interest of the companies that own them, as well as everyone who shares our planet.”
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