ATS FoC delivers critical lightning protection consulting for data centers, helping reduce disruptions and protect essential infrastructure.
Why do Data Centers Need Lightning Protection?
Lightning protection prevents direct strikes, manages lightning currents, and reduces transient overvoltages that can damage structures and electronic systems. This is crucial for data centers with critical servers, networking equipment, and sensitive data storage. A single strike or surge can disrupt operations, corrupt data, and cause significant downtime. Effective protection combines external systems such as air terminals, down conductors, and grounding electrodes with internal surge protection devices and bonding strategies to safely divert lightning energy to ground and minimize electromagnetic effects. For mission-critical facilities, a coordinated lightning protection strategy is essential for risk management, availability, and asset protection.
About Our Data Center Lightning Protection Consulting Services
We offer comprehensive lightning protection consulting for data centers to help clients prevent downtime, maintain compliance, and protect valuable data and equipment. Our services include system design, installation oversight, routine inspection, testing, and prompt repair. We develop tailored plans featuring external air-termination networks, low-impedance grounding, surge protective devices, and equipotential bonding to mitigate risks from direct strikes and transient coupling. Our technicians ensure reliable commissioning and maintenance through inspections, continuity and resistance testing, and surge device verification, enabling clients to operate with confidence. All work complies with relevant standards and codes, including NFPA 780 and UL 96A, ensuring documented compliance and effective risk management. Our experts provide the following services:
- Installation
- Inspection
- Repair
How Can Lightning Impact a Data Center?
Lightning can impact data centers in several ways, each with serious consequences. A direct strike can introduce high current into structural elements, causing thermal damage, fires, and equipment failures, which may lead to service interruptions and revenue loss. More often, lightning induces high-energy transients and electromagnetic pulses that enter power and communications cabling, damaging equipment without visible signs and potentially causing data loss or reduced service quality. Even brief outages or data corruption can disrupt services, trigger failover events, and require extensive recovery, affecting service agreements and client reputation. Our services help to:
- Reduce operational risk
- Preserve uptime
- Ensure the security of structures, systems, data, and hardware
Contact Us
Submit a web request form or call +1 (888) 287-5227 to learn how our lightning protection consultants can help support your data center’s needs.
