Data Centre Electrical and Critical Power

Electrical engineers, MEP engineers and electrical technicians who want to work on data centres, and automation engineers moving into critical facilities. Basic electrical theory is assumed.

AI has driven a wave of data centre construction, and every new hall needs its power path designed, built, tested and commissioned. The electrical side is where much of that design and commissioning work is.

About 5.6 hours of video lessons across eight teaching modules, plus the notes, practice questions, the final assessment and an optional project of around 12 hours. At a few hours a week it fits into three to four weeks.

You write the electrical design basis for a 1.2 MW colocation data hall in Melbourne, Australia: a load list, a 2N single-line description, UPS, transformer and generator sizing, and an integrated systems test plan. A worked sample pack shows each document.

No. The ETAP lessons show how power studies are done. Every calculation in the course can be done by hand or in a spreadsheet.

No. It is an EDWartens course built on free public lessons, credited on each module, and EDWartens is not affiliated with the Uptime Institute or any certification body. It covers concepts those programmes use, but it is not one of them.

Yes. Every module, the notes, the project and the final assessment. The only paid item is the certificate, if you want it.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you pass the final assessment, with a number anyone can verify on our site.

No. The lab is optional practice. You can skip it whenever you like, and it never blocks your progress, the final assessment or your certificate.

Yes. Every lab level for this course opens in your browser, free, with nothing to install.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹599 including GST for this intermediate course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.

The Data Centre Electrical and Critical Power course has 9 modules. It opens with "How a data centre works, from grid to rack", goes through "Tiers, standards and redundancy", "UPS, generators and the power train", "Power studies, arc flash and the digital twin" and "Monitoring, BMS and the AI data centre" and ends with "Final Assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Data Centre Electrical and Critical Power course: Trace data centre power from the utility to the rack; Compare N, N+1 and 2N redundancy and the Uptime Institute tiers; Calculate rack current, kVA and kW for single and three-phase feeds. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Data Centre Electrical and Critical Power course, software: None required. ETAP is shown in the lessons; a spreadsheet is enough for the calculations. Hardware: none. The course itself is free.

Data Centre Electrical and Critical Power is rated intermediate. Intermediate. You should know basic electrical theory: voltage, current, power factor, single and three-phase supplies, and what a breaker does. It is written for electrical engineers and facility engineers moving into data centres, and has 5h 9m of video lessons at your own pace.

Skills from the Data Centre Electrical and Critical Power course (for example: trace data centre power from the utility to the rack) are used in data centre electrical engineer work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.