The Rebirth of Cool: Avoiding Mistakes When Implementing Climate Management Systems

The Rebirth of Cool: Avoiding Mistakes When Implementing Climate Management Systems

March 01, 2022 When designing and constructing data centres there is a tendency to focus on major, long-term expense costs or capital expenditure (CapEx) rather than the acculumating day to day operating expenses (OpEx).

The heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) of a data centre can use up to 30% of an entire data centre facility budget. But assessing the most energy efficient cooling system to reduce operating costs, no matter the size of the initial investment into the cooling and climate management systems, is not always considered.



Planning and implementing effective airflow management with a containment system offers two overall benefits:
  • It lowers OpEx, but only if there is complete isolation between hot and cold air, and the necessary power, cooling and airflow. It is possible to run high density server loads at higher temperatures by reducing the power consumption necessary to provide cooling to the data centre environment.
  • It allows data centre operators to monitor results and increase server capacity where needed. As long as there is complete isolation between hot and cold air, and the necessary power, cooling and airflow, it is possible to run high density server loads at higher temperatures, while providing servers with adequate cooling to prevent overheating and shutdowns.
It is also important to know that exact results of containment will vary for each site. Overall performance, the initial cost of the system (CapEx), the estimated operating cost (OpEx), resulting savings and return on investment will all also vary. But by selecting a single supplier for complete data centre infrastructure needs, including cooling and climate management systems, simplifies infrastructure plans that also reduce overall CapEx and OpEx.
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