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If you are looking for a lower price, you will always find someone eager to satisfy this requirement. They will work for the lowest amount of money they possibly can, but in the process will give you the least in terms of labor, material, attention to detail, quality and service value. Can you blame them? Why should they give you...

Even with all of the labor and cost saving benefits of purchasing branch circuit power cables through PDU Cables, there are still data centers and electrical contractors that build their own power whips. From some of these DIY people, I get comments like, "Power whips aren't hard to build", "They're all the same." or "What difference does it make?" How...

As the number of data centers continues to increase in the United States, they are becoming much more energy efficient. A new report from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that electricity consumption by data centers nationwide, after rising rapidly for more than a decade, started to plateau in 2010 and has remained steady...

I was reading an article about how the Prineville Oregon data center electricians have to stay in hotels and even camp out because there isn't enough housing available for all the workers. "We have 300 or 400 electricians working here, and they're having difficulty finding places to stay." Jeff Kerr, Senior project manager, Rosendin Electric. "At some points, there are...

As recently reported in the Washington Post, the Main-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS) found that people who eat chocolate at least once a week tend to perform better cognitively. Prior studies have shown that nutrients called cocoa flavanols, found in cocoa and chocolate, have a positive effect on people's brains. Cocoa flavanols increase blood flow to the brain which in turn...

Following up on the emailing about the importance of using proper electrical device torque settings, a customer shared his experiences dealing with improperly torqued connections. We recently installed three new 480V electrical panels with Square D breakers to feed HVAC units for our raised floor. When load tested with our generators the following month, one of the breakers popped. Little...

More and more businesses, large and small, are beginning to reach a point where their data needs have outstripped their in-house computing capabilities. Instead of spending the capital or devoting resources to upgrade their infrastructure, they are seriously considering contracting with a retail data center to host their data. Your concerns when outsourcing data hosting are the same as when...

PDU Cables™ introduces the new AirGuard® Split Extreme cable seal for sealing power and data cables through cable cutouts in raised floors of data centers and mission critical facilities. MINNETONKA – November 16, 2015 - PDU Cables, a division of Engineered Products Company, the industry leading manufacturer and supplier of power-distribution cable assemblies in North America since 1981, has expanded...