Data Centres

A data centre automation platform provides centralized visibility and control over critical infrastructure such as cooling systems, electrical distribution, energy management, and operational performance. Emerson’s Ovation™ platform is a unified environment that helps operators monitor cooling performance, electrical loading, and system health through a single interface. As facilities scale, centralized automation can help simplify operations, improve situational awareness, support reliability objectives, and enable more informed operational decision-making across interconnected systems.

A unified control platform helps data centres scale more efficiently by providing consistent visibility and control across expanding power and building systems. Ovation™ can scale across power islands and facility systems while maintaining a single operational view. This approach can help operators manage airflow, chilled-water flow, equipment sequencing, and energy balance as capacity grows. Maintaining operational consistency during expansion can reduce complexity and support reliable performance without requiring separate monitoring environments for each new asset or system.

Data centres can improve cooling performance by combining automation, real-time monitoring, and accurate measurement technologies. Solutions including chilled-water controls, Rosemount™ instrumentation for pressure, temperature, and flow measurement, and FLEXIM ultrasonic flow and thermal energy meters. Together, these technologies help operators monitor hydronic performance, optimize cooling efficiency, identify developing issues early, and maintain stable thermal conditions for mission-critical equipment. Effective thermal management becomes increasingly important as computing density and cooling demands continue to rise.

Load management helps maintain operational stability as electrical and cooling demands fluctuate across a facility. Ovation™ includes integrated load-management capabilities and automatic load shedding functionality designed to support stable operation under increasing thermal demand. Effective load management can help balance generation and consumption, coordinate critical infrastructure, and reduce operational risks during changing conditions. As data centres add capacity and power-intensive workloads, managing loads becomes an increasingly important part of maintaining reliable operations

Operational technology cybersecurity focuses on protecting critical control systems while maintaining operational continuity. Emerson’s Power & Water Cybersecurity Suite, which supports a defense-in-depth strategy that includes application control, asset monitoring, intrusion detection, patch management, backups, and reporting capabilities. For data centres, integrating cybersecurity into operational systems can help reduce risk exposure while supporting visibility and reliability objectives.

Operators can achieve better visibility by integrating operational data from power, cooling, energy management, and facility systems into a centralized monitoring environment. A unified platform can consolidate dashboards, alarms, trends, asset health information, and performance indicators into a single operational view. This approach helps teams identify issues more quickly, understand how interconnected systems are performing, and make more informed operational decisions. For large or rapidly expanding data centres, centralized visibility can simplify daily operations while supporting reliability, efficiency, and coordinated management across critical infrastructure systems.