NFINIT, a LightEdge company, announced that it is undergoing an $8 million upgrade across its two San Diego data centers to boost energy efficiency and critical infrastructure reliability.
As part of this upgrade, NFINIT is updating cloud infrastructure (both hardware and software), replacing an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), which is a battery that maintains operations in the event of a power outage, and adding new chillers. The new equipment NFINIT is investing in is among the most sustainable on the market.
LightEdge acquired NFINIT in April. Together, the companies have future investments planned to further increase NFINIT's energy efficiency. Committed to sustainability, LightEdge recently partnered with Synetic to divert 6,800 pounds of e-waste from the landfill and support the Circular Computing reforestation program.
Unlike most data centers in the area, NFINIT's flagship facility was built as a data center as opposed to being converted from a warehouse space, meaning that critical efficiency and reliability considerations such as air flow and physical security were optimized from the beginning. Following the upgrades, the data center will operate at a 20% better power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.25. PUE is a common industry metric that determines a data center's energy efficiency.
In addition to energy efficiency, uptime is vital for data centers. Maintaining a modern UPS is one of the most important components for consistent data center uptime, since many outages happen due to UPS failure. NFINIT's trusted maintenance processes, as well as its combination of in-house staff and on-call local contractors, also contribute toward the company's industry leading uptime and availability record over the past 10 years.
Gabriel Faulkner, VP of Critical Infrastructure at NFINIT
Reliability is part of our DNA, and investing in our UPS equipment is critical to keeping clients' data safe. Also, by increasing NFINIT's power effectiveness by 20%, we're keeping pace with data growth trends in a more sustainable way, while also helping to mitigate rising power costs for our clients. With the backing of our new partnership with LightEdge, a strong promoter of ESG initiatives, our flagship data center on Lightwave Avenue is on track to becoming the most sustainable data center in the San Diego area.
