Tom Raftery is a social media rock star and all-round good egg. This blog provides a really nice in-depth look at the cooling strategies used by the Cork Internet Exchange, a project he has been closely involved in. Normally GreenMonk echews hardcore green data center stuff, but this one caught my eye because it was driven by CIX, rather than by a big vendor agenda. There is plenty of good information and data in there if you’re thinking about cooling strategies. Air-conditioning is one of the major costs in a data center yet its sometimes ignored in favour of trying to make servers cooler. Get the air-con right though and you can cut costs and carbon too.
Its also a great grassroots story because it takes account of the fact its often fecking cold in Ireland. Why spend money on cooling if its cold outside? The basic strategy:
- Utilise free cooling.
- Maximise chilled water temperature.
- Eliminate water mixing.
- Eliminate air mixing.
- Utilise low resistance slow speed air paths.
- Minimise humidification.
More from Dennis here.
Note to Tom - please sort out your diagrams though, mate, the links are 404ing.
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James,
thanks a million for the kind words and the link.
The missing images will be sorted out asap - no idea what happened there,
Cheers,
Tom
James those images were added in agin,
cheers,
Tom