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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Sharing power quality data
Last year, about this time, I asked if there was any interest in sharing power quality data. Whether it is Northern Virginia, or Silicon Valley, a lot of us drink from the same power pond. Its not so much a competitive matter, as bad power will make all of us sick. Internally we all have UPSes, generators, flywheels, etc. but we all get utility power from the same grid. Most of us collect a lot of data with power quality meters from our point of view of the utility grid. But since none of us share information, none of us really knows what the whole picture looks like. A few miles a way the major regional power outage may show up us just a blip in the data. And unless you were looking specifically for it, you might not have noticed. Nevertheless, the additional data might help with the analysis, if you knew who to ask to get it. AOL has one of the best designed, built and operated data centers in the world. Everyone I know who has ever seen it has been very impressed. It would take a remarkable event to affect AOL's operation. But we are always building based on the last earthquake, or the last hurricane or the last power problem. So we learn every time the extraordinary happens. Other data centers may use a very similar power design, so the extraordinary is very much of interest. Who knows, another data center might have already had the similar problem and found a fix.
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