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Emerson St. Louis Data Center Fact Sheet

Key Facts

  • The opening of the St. Louis data center is an integral part of Emerson’s global consolidation of more than 100 data centers worldwide to just four. The facilities in St. Louis and Marshalltown, Iowa are completed. Plans are under way for data centers in Europe and Asia.
  • When it goes online, the data center will feature 6,000 square feet of raised floor, with capacity for 12,000 and, ultimately, 5,000 servers. The facility was designed to use only as much space as needed, with provisions in place for easy expansion.
  • The data center utilizes servers with Nehalem processors from Intel. Those processors feature hardware virtualization support, facilitating widespread virtualization within the data center and helping reduce the number of servers by a count of 18-1.
  • The data center is equipped with three tiers of redundancy, with dual utility feeds, redundant UPS protection and onsite generators.
  • Redundant dual-bus power capacity starting at 1,350 kW and ultimate UPS systems scalability up to 4,050 kW across dual paths allows power usage to be scaled to meet the facility’s highest demands without sacrificing efficiency.
  • Emerson anticipates the data center will have 99.982 percent uptime – with an average of only 1.6 hours per year of unplanned downtime.
  • Emerson’s innovative approach to the design of this data center enabled it to minimize excess material use. For instance, by locating heat-exchange units on the roof rather than on the property adjacent to the center, Emerson saved more than 2.5 miles of copper piping and created a more scalable cooling infrastructure.
  • Approximately 80 percent of the waste generated during the construction has been diverted from landfills.
  • The center was designed to cope with a variety of natural and man-made disaster scenarios, including earthquakes, telecom fiber cuts, tornadoes, flooding and fires.
  • The new data center is designed to withstand up to an F3 tornado or an earthquake up to 8.0 on the Richter scale. Glass used on the front of the building is rated to withstand hurricane-force winds.

Energy-Efficiency Attributes

  • The Emerson St. Louis data center will be 31 percent more energy efficient than traditional data centers.
  • The data center incorporates the strategies and technologies advocated in Emerson Network Power’s Energy Logic roadmap for reducing data center energy consumption and improving energy efficiency.
  • A 7,800-square-foot rooftop solar array containing more than 550 solar panels is the largest in Missouri and is capable of generating 100 kW of power.
  • Emerson anticipates achieving LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.