Air management is a crucial part of data center management. By improving your air management, you can reduce your operating costs, reduce the risk of equipment failure, and increase your data center’s density capacity. We've sorted through some of the key points from PG &E's High Performance Data Centers Guidebook and listed them below for you.

• Use strict hot aisle/cold aisle configuration, minimize mixing the hot air released by equipment and cold air supplied by CRAC units
  
• Combine air containment with an air-side economizer to reduce data center cooling costs
  
• Remove hot air immediately as it exits the equipment
  
• Enable a higher temperature difference between the return air and supply air to increase the maximum load density possible in the space and help reduce the size of the cooling equipment required
  
• Avoid common problems that can decrease a CRAC unit’s usable capacity, such as leaking floor tiles/cable openings, poorly placed overhead supplies, underfloor plenum obstructions, and inappropriately oriented rack exhausts.

At Mirapath we specialize in helping data centers be more efficient and reliable. Whether it's retrofitting or building out, we have the expertise to help you succeed. For assistance with your data center project or to speak with our solution specialist, contact us today at 877.647.2728 or fill out the form and we'll contact you.

To read the entire section on Air Management, please go to page 10 of guidebook published by PG&E's High Performance Data Centers, A Design Guideline Sourcebook, January 2011.

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