Can Data Centers Get Affected By Use Of Lithium Ion Batteries?
Data centers in India are always evolving so that the businesses are able to provide better experience to their users and ultimately the consumers get benefitted at least cost. In fact, all the businesses want to have an edge over others to get the leverage. With the advent of cloud hosting solution, faster content delivery has become possible. This has benefitted all sectors – be it financial institutions, retailers, digital education, or else. To be on the same footing with these evolving technologies, the requirements regarding bandwidth, space, and cooling is also changing. In fact, these changes are also leading to newer requirements regarding power. When the word “power” is used, the perceived notion is that the traditional power sources and their usages are talked about. However, here in this article, other power sources will be discussed such as batteries.
Batteries As We Know
A traditional battery stores a specific amount of energy, which is released at an appropriate time. It is universal no matter whether the same is working a flashlight or an effective bridge with the requirements of an auxiliary power source. Ask any professional and he/she will tell how underperformance is affecting their work. Same is the case for infrastructure of data center in India too. Whether you ask a manager, user, or owner, they all will say in unison that there is always a need of improving energy storage solution for data centers or server colocation services .
When it comes to critical data center usages, it has been seen that the most common form of energy source is the uninterruptible power system that has been paired with the traditional lead-acid batteries. This provides these data centers brief ride-through time that can support the data center activities for limited time period, especially during outages or emergencies.
While searching for a viable solution
to traditional batteries, a new technology has evolved and it is lithium ion
batteries.
Are Lithium Ion Batteries Better Alternative to Traditional Batteries?
In the entire power chain of a data center in India or other places of the world, traditional lead-acid batteries are considered as weak links. For supporting a modern day data center facility long strings of batteries are required. Not only there is a requirement of long string of batteries for proper support but also their heavy and high maintenance. In fact, there always remains a possibility of frequent replacement. To alleviate these pain points, many innovations have taken place whether it is in the field of service, management, or monitoring. However, they come with additional cost.
To do away with these pain points, there has been a need for batteries that are more reliable, smaller in size, easily replaceable, have longer life, come with longer shelf life, have lesser weight, and can accommodate higher temperatures. This is where effectiveness of lithium ion batteries comes handy and fills up the yawning gap between requirement and availability. These advanced batteries are able to meet all the listed features that do away with the pain points of traditional batteries.
It should said at the very onset that all kinds of lithium-ion batteries are not the same. They are of different types and they are –
· Li-titanate
· Li-aluminum
· Li-phosphate
· NMC
· Li-manganese
· Li-cobalt
Out of these variants Li-manganese variant come with more power. However, they have less capacity. When compared with the Li-cobalt one, these Li-manganese variants are of more power. They are mixed with NMC for performance improvement.
No matter how different these variants are from one another it should be said that they are far better than the traditional ones, which ultimately provide more energy to the data centers in India.