South America | December 10, 2013

GE to Power ViaWest Data Centers

GE’s Critical Power business has announced that ViaWest, the leading colocation provider in North America, has selected GE’s highly reliable electrical distribution systems to power several of the company’s innovative data centers.

 

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GE’s Critical Power business has announced that ViaWest, the leading colocation provider in North America, has selected GE’s highly reliable electrical distribution systems to power several of the company’s innovative data centers.

GE’s substation distribution equipment, switchboards, panelboards, transformers and power switching equipment, meet ViaWest’s needs for guaranteed uptime, redundancy and fault tolerance.

“GE’s combination of highly reliable equipment, speed to market and financing options make them an ideal partner to help fuel the growth of our innovative data centers,” said Dave Leonard, chief data center officer, ViaWest. “GE worked closely with our design engineers from the project’s inception to completion to ensure we had best-in-class electrical distribution system solutions to meet our needs.”

ViaWest’s newest Las Vegas-area data centre, Lone Mountain, is built for energy efficiency and fault-tolerant high availability. ViaWest Lone Mountain data centre’s Adaptable Mesh electrical design is powered by two independent medium-voltage utility feeds serving more than 74,000 square feet of raised-floor data centre space.

“Working with ViaWest to provide the power systems for their network of mission-critical data centers brings together GE’s core strength in electrical distribution and resilient power management,” said Jeff Schnitzer, general manager of GE’s Critical Power business.

GE’s Critical Power business provides mission-critical applications with end-to-end power product and service solutions that maximise uptime and power efficiency. The solutions add to GE’s broader Industrial Solutions portfolio of leading technologies designed for the delivery, management and optimisation of electrical power for customers across multiple industries.

Source: Business Wire