Experiencing cooling issues? Want to minimize cooling expenses?

You are not alone. Cooling accounts for 37% of energy consumption in a typical data center and as many as 50% of data centers are experiencing operational deficiencies due to cooling issues¹.

Industry proven strategies to maximize your cooling infrastructure:

• Perform a data center cooling assessment. Before doing an upgrade or addition, do a cooling assessment to determine if there are smaller changes that can be done to improve your cooling infrastructure. It might be an issue of air distribution versus capacity, or adjusting your set points in the CRAC unit, or just doing maintenance on your chilled water-cooling circuit.

  A full assessment will include heat load versus cooling capacity, measuring airflow and temperature at numerous points, tile air velocity, a review of conditions of chillers and condensers, identification of hot spots, CFD (computational fluid dynamics) analysis and specific recommendations.

• Employ hot and cold aisle rack arrangement to minimize the mixing of cold and hot air.
• Utilize blanking panels in unused rack spaces to prevent cold air bypass and hot air recycling.
• Cover the floor holes with grommets in raised floor environments - prevent unwanted cold air leakages.
• Use proper cable management with optimized cable lengths to facilitate airflow as opposed to restricting airflow.
• Remove any blockages from the subfloor areas.
• Deploy temperature and humidity monitoring solution for visibility of your data center and lab environmental conditions.
• Utilize air flow assistants such as CRAC Units collars, rear door exhaust fan panels, passive or active chimneys at cabinet rear door, adjustment kits to side venting network equipment.
• Further contain hot or cold aisles with vinyl curtains or sliding doors.
• Employ localized cooling such as in-row or top of the rack cooling - bring the cold air to where it is needed the most (high density racks)
• Investigate the benefits and deploy advanced cooling technologies such as CRAC units with variable speed fan units, economizers, scalable power and cooling solutions that match cooling to power loads.