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Maximize Your Energy Savings with Free Cooling
Free cooling is a highly effective, energy-efficient strategy that uses naturally cool outdoor air or water to remove heat from a facility. Instead of relying solely on energy-intensive mechanical refrigeration and running power-hungry compressors, a free cooling system leverages favorable outdoor temperatures to do the heavy lifting. This approach can drastically reduce your overall energy consumption, lower your utility bills, and shrink your facility’s carbon footprint.
Discover Your Potential “Free Cooling Days”
Because the effectiveness of this strategy depends entirely on local climate conditions, we have integrated the Free Cooling Tool directly onto this page to help you assess your local environment. By simply inputting your location into the tool below, you can instantly estimate how many “free cooling days” your facility might experience throughout a typical year. A free cooling day represents a day where the outdoor ambient temperature is low enough to supplement or completely replace traditional air conditioning systems.
Use the interactive tool below to:
Assess climate viability: Quickly determine if your local weather patterns are suited for an economizer cooling system.
Forecast potential savings: Get a clearer picture of how much you could reduce your annual mechanical cooling load.
Plan infrastructure upgrades: Make informed, data-driven decisions about upgrading your HVAC or data center cooling systems.
