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 operators report that skilled electrical, MEP and commissioning staff are hard to recruit. The electrical side is where much of the design and commissioning work is.

About 8.7 hours of video lessons across eight teaching modules, plus the notes, practice questions, the final assessment and an optional project of around 10 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, and 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.

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.