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Air Distribution Architecture Options for Mission Critical Facilities

Overview There are nine basic ways to use air to cool equipment in data centers and network rooms. These methods vary in performance, cost, and ease of implementation. These methods are described along with their various advantages. The proper application of these cooling techniques is essential knowledge for Information Systems personnel as well as Facilities Managers.

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Publisher	American Power Conversion (APC)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2009	Downloads	10
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center, Scalability, Infrastructure Management, Asset Management, High Performance Computing, Load Balancing, Quality of Service, ATM, Bandwidth Issues

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It's not easy being green

Within the IT data centre, the biggest expenditures are on power and cooling, alongside human resources. Strangely enough, the rest of the building also spends a lot on heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) - much of it for hot water.

IT must be called to account over emissions

A lot can also be done in the data centre to reduce, or more effectively manage, electricity consumption, from simple steps such as using variable speed motors in air-cooling systems, to running equipment only when necessary, sealing floor cut...

Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?

The example used in the article is a Google datacentre in Belgium that relies on ambient cooling to keep its facilities under a certain temperature instead of firing up expensive air-conditioning systems.

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Servers
Tags:
internet,
datacentre

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