The new Interxion data centre in Saint-Denis, Paris

New generation data centre:

SDMO provides the site with security of electricity supply
In Saint-Denis on the edge of Paris, the
European market leader in colocation,
data centres and managed services has a
new highly secure infrastructure which
provides answers to its clients issues
regarding security, electricity supply and
connectivity. This new generation data
centre is an impressive storage bunker
which is more reliable and more energy
ecient than the previous generation.

Strategically located close to one of the

major European financial markets, this
centre is the first to distribute medium
voltage electricity (20,000 Volts) inside the
building. Its 4,200m of hosting space is
equipped with the latest technologies and
has over 2,000 Watts per m of electrical
power capacity.

An SDMO emergency generating set

for a data centre in the heart of Sydney
The head oce of the KAZ Group, a
leader in the ICT (Information and
Communication Technology) market, is
located in the heart of Sydney, Australia.
This building and its data centre, which
are located on the same site, benet from
an SDMO emergency generating set.
The 450 kVA generating set within a
soundproof enclosure is equipped with
a Volvo TAD1631GE motor and a Leroy
Somer LSA472M7 alternator.

The sound level of the genset is

70d(B)A @ 7 metres. It has an extra
fuel tank giving it more than 10
hours of autonomous running time
with the ability to refill from level 0
of the building. Remote surveillance
and remote operation are made
possible by the presence of an
integrated Telys cabinet and Wintelys
software.

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To meet the exacting reliability demands

imposed by its clients and to avoid any
interruption to the service, including
during periods of site maintenance or
development, the centre is equipped
with an electricity power plant consisting
of 4 SDMO 3,025 kVA generating sets.
Redundancy of the UPSs, the cooling
systems and the generating sets provides
the site with optimum security,
in the same way as the EDF
dual supply system. Note: the
4 generating sets can
be increased to 7 in line
with the growth of power
consumption at the site.

From 2012, the Basalte Tower will be home to one of the largest trading rooms in Europe

An SDMO power plant at the heart of one of

the largest trading rooms in Europe
To meet the demands of expansion,
SOCIETE GENERALE, one of the largest
and oldest banks in France, is currently
building a new 43,000m2 tower in the
La Dfense business district in Paris.
Called the Basalte Tower, from 2012 it
will be home to 3,500 employees and will
become one of the largest trading rooms
in Europe. It will be equipped with an
emergency electricity power plant made
up of SDMO generating sets.

As far as data centres and the company

Socit Gnrale are concerned, SDMO
is no debutant! Completed in 1995, the
old Chassagne and Alicante towers
are equipped with 4 SDMO generating
sets of 3,125 kVA with temporary grid
coupling, and 2 x 600 kVA gensets as
backup and to provide peak-shaving
power to the 8 floors of the underground
car park.
The Granite tower, operational since
2008, has 3 SDMO 2500 kVA generating
sets for the offices and a 650 kVA
emergency genset for the underground
car park.
Following the example of neighbouring
towers, the Basalte tower will have an
emergency power plant which, in the
event of the main power supply being
cut, will be able to supply the trading
rooms which are connected 24H/24 and
365 days per year to the worlds financial
markets.

The prestigious Basalte project

is being carried out using the HEQ
approach (High Environmental Quality):
implemented from the building contract
stage, this approach makes buildings
more environmentally friendly than their
contemporaries, in particular by stressing
the importance of comfort, air quality,
hygrometry and by encouraging energy
efficiency.
The electricity power plant is made up of
6 x 2500C type interconnected generating
sets, each with a unit power rating of
2,500 kVA. These gensets are equipped
with an MTU 16V4000G63 motor and a
Leroy Somer LSA53S75 single-bearing
alternator. Each genset has dual start-up
(electric and pneumatic). Just what the
building needs for ultimate security of
supply...

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The HEQ (High Environmental Quality)
approach aims to minimize the impact
of construction or renovation on the
environment at the same time as
ensuring conditions inside the building
are healthy and comfortable.
The approach has 14 target areas
(detailed in the Environmental Quality in
Construction standard):
- Eco-construction targets (harmonious
relationship between the building and its
environment, selection of construction
materials and processes, etc.)
- Eco-management targets (energy, water,
waste management, etc.)
- Comfort targets (hygrothermic, acoustic,
visual and olfactory comfort)
- Health targets (sanitary quality of
building spaces, air and water)
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16 x 2,000 kVA: an ultra-secure emergency power plant for a data centre in England !
Whereas most critical sites generally opt
for an n+1 or even n+2 generating set
redundancy system such that, during
downtime (e.g. maintenance operations),
the site will still have all the power it
requires, the system chosen for this power
plant is 2(n+1)!

This power plant is typical of the level of

security required in the banking sector.
The site is split into 2 half-plants made up
of 4 busbars in each of the 2 generating
sets, interconnected by motorised circuit
breakers.
The total installed power (16 x 2,000

kVA) is 2.5 times greater than the power

required, which once again demonstrates
the importance of the electricity supply in
this type of application.
The output voltage is 11 kV.

In England, 2 half-plants of 4 x 2,000 kVA for a large American bank

In England, one of the biggest players in
the banking sector called in SDMO (or
to be precise, its UK subsidiary SDMO
Energy Ltd) to equip its premises with
emergency generating sets, in order
to combat any interruptions from the
national grid and thereby to make safe its
data recording and access system.

The company, located in West London,

has 2 half-plants of 4 SDMO generating
sets of 2,000 kVA (1,600 kW) placed
in soundproof containers. The acoustic
treatment of the installation followed a
detailed study to achieve a particularly
low sound level: 69 d(B)A @ 1 metre.
The gensets are equipped with an MTU
16V4000 motor and a Leroy Somer LSA
51.2M60 alternator. Automated operation
is provided by Kerys Tactil control cabinets
for coupling the two half-plants together.
In the event of a power cut, if there
is a problem with the first half-plant,

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the second is therefore able to provide

the sites electrical power (redundancy
operation).
The assignment required the deployment
of significant resources, both in
engineering and production terms (e.g.
alternator sizing calculated in line with
the distorted loads from the UPSs and the
creation of a special test bench).
The particularly advanced client
specifications focussed on the area of
automatic control: the low voltage panel,
specially fitted by the manufacturer in
the SDMO factory, and the Kerys Tactil
cabinets were subjected to exhaustive
testing to ensure the systems reliability.

The IBM Collgien site in Paris: 3 x 1,850 kVA in concrete containers

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of their resources.
The companys emergency centres make
use of facilities and equipment with
increasingly high levels of performance:
secure computer rooms, state of the
art equipment, bre optic connections,
redundant UPSs and generating sets, etc.

The global market leader in information

services and technologies has fitted its
data centres with systems capable of
meeting todays strategic challenges
in the area of operational business
continuity: emergency electricity power
plants to combat potential power cuts.
IBM called in SDMO to supply the power
plants, but also because of the quality of
its advisory and engineering services.
During the expansion of its site in
Collgien in Paris, the company purchased

an SDMO emergency power plant

equipped with 3 type X1850C generating
sets in concrete containers, renowned
for their excellent performance in terms
of noise level, durability and on-site
integratability (see photo above). In
Montpellier, the SDMO power plant is
made up of 4 x 1,500 kVA and 3 x 1,000
kVA generating sets placed in soundproof
containers fitted with a step-up
transformer and a grid coupling system
(see photo below).

The IBM Montpellier site: 4 x 1,500 kVA and 3 x 1,000 kVA in soundproof containers

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United Kingdom: 4 x 2,750 kVA

at a large investment bank
The data centre of a large American
investment bank located in the south
of the British capital has an electricity
power plant made up of 4 SDMO
generating sets of 2,750 kVA.
The generating sets installed in a
soundproof container (ISO 45 High Cube)
have an extremely low sound level (70
dB(A) @ 1 metre). They are fitted with
an MTU 20V4000 motor and a Leroy
Somer 53 UL 9 (11 kV) alternator. Control
functions are provided by Kerys Tactil
cabinets enabling the gensets to be
synchronised giving a total power output
of 11,000 kVA, which will safeguard
the data centre in the event of a power
cut from the national grid. This vast
project allows for the future expansion
of the power plant to include 8 identical
generating sets.

5 x 2,500 kVA of emergency power in Paris

for a data processing centre for a subsidiary of the BNP Paribas Group
In Paris, the data processing centre
for one of the subsidiaries of the BNP
Paribas Group is equipped with an SDMO
emergency electricity power plant. The
installation of the plant was carried out
without cutting the power supply to the
computer rooms.

The 1,250m2 computer processing area

and an office area are safeguarded by the
power plant. It is made up of 5 x 2,750 kVA
generating sets (of which one operates
redundantly with the other 4) with
temporary coupling to the grid: in the
absence of power supplied from EDF, the
order to start-up the plant is given to the
generating sets and backup is provided
within the next 15 seconds.

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The generating sets are fitted with an

MTU 20V4000 motor and a Leroy Somer
alternator. The power plant also includes
Iroise Kerys power, synchronisation and
coupling control units, designed by
SDMO.

Sultanate of Oman:
2 x 375 kVA
for the Central Bank of Oman

High technology and greater security!

20 x 2,000 kVA at the new data centres of the largest French banking group
In 2010, Crdit Agricole Immobilier, as the
nominated client for the CREDIT AGRICOLE
S.A. Group, began the construction of a
double computer centre Diderot and
dAlembert, made up of 2 sites located
in Mainvilliers and Fontaine Le Guyon, on
the edge of the city of Chartres, France.
Each with a surface area of 14,000m2,
these centres will host Crdit Agricoles
large central computer systems which are
currently distributed over several sites in
France and abroad.

The safeguarding of the electricity

supply to these sites has been
provided by the installation of SDMO
emergency power plants.
In the first phase, each site was
equipped with 2 x 2,200 kVA generating
sets with 15 kV high-voltage supply
coupling (and the ability to change
to 20 kV). During the second phase,
these power plants will be expanded
to include 5 x 2,200 kVA generating
sets. The modular and extendable

architecture selected when designing

the site guarantees improved energy
efficiency, greater control of operational
dangers and optimisation of costs.

The double data centre dAlembert and Diderot during construction.

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