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Rethinking Data Center Air Circulation Strategies
The reliability of a data center is an essential part of the business operation. As data center capacity and server rack densities have increased, in recent years, data center designers…
Cooling With Rear-door Heat Exchanger To Optimize Data Center
A densely populated data center allows you to maximize floor space and hardware, but it brings problems with the heat generated as a byproduct of the power consumption. Air circulation…
Why Liquid Cooling is the Future for Data Centers
Air cooling has dominated the data center cooling industry, not only of its convenience but as previously installed air conditioning units only need a little expansion to provide cool air for…
ASHRAE 90.4 Standard For Data Center Cooling
A Data Center is a large, energy-hungry facility. One of its largest energy-consuming functions is its HVAC system. This is responsible for ventilation and data center cooling. Data centers provide…
Rear-Door Heat Exchanger for High-density Data Center
The demand for large data storage and computing capacity places data centers at a crossroads. It continuously grows as an effect of the Covid-19 pandemic across the globe. The nationwide…
Rack Cooling Solution for High-Density Data Centers
The demand for high computing capacity changed the standard for data center operation. It sets a more complex environment making the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units alone an insubstantial…
A Look at Data Center Cooling Technology
Cooling a Data Center Computer room air conditioner (CRAC) or computer room air handler (CRAH) infrastructure is used by traditional data center cooling technology. This combined cooling infrastructure pushes cold…
Airflow Management Plan For Data Center
One of the most important things to consider in running a data center is airflow management. Cooling air accounts for around 24% of the annual operating budget of a data…
AKCP Launches Free Online PUE Calculator
AKCP, the world’s oldest and largest supplier of networked wired and wireless sensor solutions, has launched a free online PUE calculator to check your data center efficiency and identify potential…
Cold Aisle Containment ‘s Air Pressure
The rising energy consumption of data centers forced the industry to get underway for energy efficiency. Data centers located in the United States alone consumed more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours…
10 Tips For An Efficient Power Consumption in Data Center
Data centers nowadays can now pack more power in small-scale areas. However, due to various factors of the increasing demand, high-density environments drain the operating budgets. Power consumption is a serious…
Future of Data Center Cooling: Optimizing Efficiency with Temperature Sensors and Cooling Solutions
Future of Data Center Cooling In the digital era, data centers have become an indispensable part of the world, catering to individuals, businesses, cities, and countries. With the increasing reliance…
Best Data Center Cooling Practices to Implement
Datacenter cooling practices differ from one another. Planning starts from the layout, capacity, and equipment installed within the facility. In general, data center cooling is a complex process. There are…
Temperature Monitoring System in Data Center
In the digital world, everyone depends on machines, applications, and online information. People access this using multiple channels at any given time. To deliver these services, enterprises rely on data…
Temperature Sensor for Optimization of Cooling System Efficiency
A temperature sensor is among other sensors used in monitoring environmental elements in data centers like temperature, power, and airflow. These sensors allow data center managers to monitor and immediately…
Data Center Aisle Containment
Keeping the data center at the optimum temperature requires huge energy consumption. The cooling system needs to operate round the clock to counter the hot air exhausted by servers. It…
Impact of the Growth of Internet of Things (IoT) in Data Center
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)? It is the physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet. Each of these devices has the capability of…
The 3 Levels of Data Center Fire Protection
3-Level Data Center Fire Protection It is given that the data center is prone to fire hazards. An operating data center is full of electrical components, wires, and cables that…
What You Need To Know About Bed Bug Heat Treatment
In 2019, four Michigan cities had been included in Orkin’s worst cities for Bed Bugs. Since then, the state has always been on the lookout for an effective way to…
Hot and Cold-Aisle Containment – Advantages & Disadvantages
Hot-Aisle and Cold-Aisle containment are strategies that separate the exhausted hot air from IT cabinets from the cold air that is cooling them. Preventing the bypass of cold air and…