HP Flexible DC is an innovative data center design that enhances construction efficiency and energy savings through modular architecture and advanced cooling technologies. It aims to reduce both capital and operational expenditures while offering scalability and flexibility to meet varying IT loads. The approach also emphasizes supply chain management to expedite the commissioning process, supported by HP's extensive experience in the data center sector.

1. Introducing HP Flexible DC
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2. What are the considerations?
• Build, retrofit or lease?
• How long does my capacity
Plan/scope
projections give me? 1-2 years
• Green-field makes sense, but End-of-life
Design
getting CAPEX approval? 2 years
6 months -
1 year
• Incorporating growth of power
rating design Operate
• Life-time operating costs 15-20
years
Build
2 years
• Flexibility for growth, known and
unknown
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3. What is HP Flexible DC?
– An innovative concept which challenges conventional data center design
– An industrialized approach to the mechanical and electrical Infrastructure
– A means to move construction labor from the field to the factory
– Energy efficient through hot aisle containment, pre-fabricated air handlers
with air to air heat exchangers and highly efficient UPS systems
– Consists of modular pods, built when needed, not now
– Emphasis shifting to supply chain management from the traditional
custom design and construct
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4. Elements of HP Flexible DC: Butterfly Design
Power
Conditioning Generator
Module Module
Cooling
Module
IT
M8 – 800 kW
Module Central Module
Core
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5. The core building
– Central core
– Security
– Shipping and receiving
– Network areas
– Network Operating Center
– Administration areas
– Staff and meeting rooms
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6. Mechanical systems
Air flow design strategy
Air enters the sidewalls of the facility, through the racks, exists via a hot aisle
containment assembly and is exhausted out through the roof.
– Exterior air handlers with DX back-
up
– Saving costly space
– 4 cooling methods available
– Scalable to meet IT loads
– Tuned to local environment
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7. Electrical systems
Availability strategy
FlexDC’s electrical configuration accommodates various needs of
reliability levels and size of the data center.
– Equipment, conversions and
transformations in the power
supply chain eliminated
– Designed to meet energy
standards and best practices
– Higher availability due to less
componentry between utility
power and the server
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8. Economics that impress the CFO
Reduce capex and opex, increase flexibility
– FlexDC design economics
– Supply chain economics
– Energy economics
– Sustainability economics
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9. Why HP Flexible DC?
• Industrialized approach creates low cost solution,
reducing capital investment requirements in half
• Modular architecture delivers limitless scalability and
flexibility
• Innovative cooling technology lowers energy costs,
significantly decreasing carbon footprint
• Efficient supply-chain management shortens concept to
commissioned cycle to less than one year
• Standard design module makes it suitable for all
climate zones
• HP CFS know-how backing it all up with more than 40
million square feet of commissioned data centers, and
more than 30 Fortune 100 companies as current
customers
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