According to code, emergency power is not required in which setting?

• A. Data centers
• B. Hospitals
• C. Industrial plants
• D. Emergency services facilities

Answer: (A)

Emergency power rules focus on keeping life-safety systems and critical operations running during a blackout. Hospitals, emergency services facilities, and many industrial plants have loads that must remain powered to protect occupants, continue essential services, and prevent hazardous situations. Data centers, while they rely on continuous power to protect data and uptime, are not universally subject to the same life-safety emergency-power mandates by code. They typically rely on uninterrupted power supplies and backup generators aimed at protecting equipment rather than life-safety functions. So, data centers are the setting where emergency power is not required by code.