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Sizing A Generator

This document provides a worksheet to calculate the power and cooling requirements for a data center. It estimates the critical load to be 666.75 kW based on existing and future IT equipment. It then calculates the total power needed as 1,161.37 kW to support both electrical and cooling demands. Based on this, it estimates the required electrical service from the utility as 3,814 amps at 220 volts. It also estimates the size of a standby generator would need to be 1,742.05 kW to support the critical loads during an outage. Finally, it calculates the total heat output of the data center to be 698,888 watts or 199.68 tons of cooling.

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Sizing A Generator

This document provides a worksheet to calculate the power and cooling requirements for a data center. It estimates the critical load to be 666.75 kW based on existing and future IT equipment. It then calculates the total power needed as 1,161.37 kW to support both electrical and cooling demands. Based on this, it estimates the required electrical service from the utility as 3,814 amps at 220 volts. It also estimates the size of a standby generator would need to be 1,742.05 kW to support the critical loads during an outage. Finally, it calculates the total heat output of the data center to be 698,888 watts or 199.68 tons of cooling.

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Data Center power requirement estimate calculation worksheet

Entered
Item Data Required Calculation Subtotal kW
Value
Power Requirement - Electrical
Critical load- sizing calculator (Calculator total in VA x
value from APC website
Rating of each IT device 187500 0.8)/1000 #1 150.00 kW
For equipment not listed in the Subtotal VA (include fire,
sizing calculator, critical load - security and monitoring 75000 (Subtotal VA x 0.8)/1000 #2 60.00 kW
nameplate systems)

VA of nameplate of each [(Add VA rating of future


Future Loads
anticipated IT device
531250 devices) * 0.8]/1000 #3 425.00 kW

Peak power draw due to Total steady state critical


variation in critical loads load power draw
(#1 + #2 + #3) x 1.05 #4 666.75 kW
UPS inefficiency and battery Actual Load + Future Loads
charging (In kW)
(#1 +#2 +#3) x .032 #5 6.72 kW
0.002 x floor area (sq ft),
Total floor area associated
Lighting
with the data center
4844 or 0.0215 x floor area (sq #6 9.69 kW
m)
Total power to support Total from #4, #5 and #6
electrical demands above
#4 + #5 + #6 #7 683.16 kW
Power Requirement - Cooling
For Chiller system #7 x
Total power to support cooling
demands
Total from #7 above 0.7 #8 478.21 kW
For DX system #7 x 1.0

Total Power Requirement


Total power to support
electrical and cooling demands
Total from #7 and #8 above #7 + #8 #9 1,161.37 kW

Size of Electrical Service Estimate


Requirement to meet NEC and
other regulators
Total from #9 above #9 X 1.25 #10 1,451.71 kW
Three phase AC voltage
provided at service entrance
AC voltage 220 #11 220.00 VAC
Electrical service required from Total from #10 and AC
utility company in Amps voltage in #11
(#10 x 1000)/(#11 x 1.73) 3,814.27 Amps
Size of Standby Generator Estimate (If applicable)

#7 x 1.5 (power factor =1)


Critical loads requiring
generator backup
Total from #7 above use 3.0 multiplier for #12 1,024.74 kW
double conversion UPS

Cooling loads requiring


generator back up
Total from #8 above #8 x 1.5 #13 717.32 kW

Size of generator needed Total from #12 and #13 above #12 + #13 1,742.05 kW
Data Center or network room heat output calculation worksheet
Entered Heat output Heat Output
Item Data required
Value calculation Subtotal
Same as total IT
Total IT Load
IT Equipment Power in Watts
575000 load power in 575,000.00 Watts
watts

Power system (0.04 x Power


UPS with system rating) +
rated power in 1120000
(0.06 x total IT load 79,300.00 Watts
Battery Watts power)

Power system (0.02 x Power


Power system rating) +
rated power in 1120000
(0.02 x Total IT load 33,900.00 Watts
Distribution Watts power)

Floor area in
2.0 x floor area (sq
square feet, or
Lighting Floor area in
4844 ft), or 21.53 x floor 9,688.00 Watts
area (sq m)
square meters
Max # of
100 x Max # of
People personnel in data 10
personnel 1,000.00 Watts
center
Subtotals from Sum of heat output
Total above subtotals 698,888.00 Watts
1 TON of cooling = 12,000 BTU/hr 2,384,605.86 BTU/hr
1 kW = 3,412 BTU/hr or 1W = 3.412 BTU/hr 199.68 Tons
1 BTU/hr = 0.293 Watts
1 TON of cooling = 3.5 kW

Orange fields =
Green Fields=entry
calculated

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