aisle-configuration
SAP Green Data Centers Certified
Posted in aisle-configuration, certification, country-germany, green-data-center, green-data-centre, sap, virtual-machines on April 15th, 2010 by FrankM – Comments OffSAP uses hold / cold aisle configurations and virtualization to drive the energy efficiency of its data centers. The company’s data centers in Germany have been certified as energy efficient by TUEV Rheinland. …
… “The SAP data centers were specifically recognized for the use of advanced technologies, which in 2009 saved roughly 55 million kilowatt hours/14,000 tons of CO2 emissions, equal to the annual energy consumption of 13,000 households. The SAP centers scored particularly high in the areas of quality assurance, management and climate control. ” …
Via Yahoo! Finance: SAP Energy Efficient Data Centers
Data center SmartAisle configuration uses cold aisle with row cooling
Posted in aisle-configuration, cooling-system, emerson-electric, enclosure, rack-design, smart-sensors on March 13th, 2010 by FrankM – Comments OffData Center Heat Maps
Posted in aisle-configuration, arch-rock, data-center, heat, heat-load, heat-map, optimization, temperature-control on November 2nd, 2009 by FrankM – Comments OffIn order to adjust temperature setpoints higher in the data center, better monitoring is needed to understand the impacts and avoid hot spots and shutdowns. …
… “IPthermal-XT Nodes (new), which provide up to seven temperature and one humidity measurements, are used in hot and cold aisles to measure input and output air temperatures at various heights from the raised floor and to generate heat maps. ” …
Via Arch Rock: Energy Optimizer-Data Center Edition
Data Center Free Cooling
Posted in aisle-configuration, ambient-air-cooling, cooling-system, green-design, heat-exchange, heat-load on February 11th, 2009 by FrankM – Comments OffData center achieves high green building rating through efficient design and use of ambient cooling. …
… “Inside, a parallel bank of fans will pull outside air through the filter-backed louvers, directing it down aisles of toasty computer servers. ” …
Via Sacramento Bee: Fresh air green data center
ADC McClellan Data Center Efficiency
Posted in adc, air-economizers, aisle-configuration, chiller, design, energy-efficiency, green-it-strategy, load, strategies on January 20th, 2009 by FrankM – Comments Off
ADC is building the green McClellan Park data center for the United States Air Force. …
… “By utilizing energy efficiency strategies such as Air Side Economizers, Hot/Cold Isle and Highly Efficient Chiller and Fan systems, ADC uses 25% less overall energy to operate the same Critical Load … ” …
Via Advanced Data Centers: McClellan/Sacramento Data Center
Hot Aisle Cold Aisle Data Center Cooling Configuration
Posted in air-conditioning, aisle-configuration, challenge, configuration-management, controls, cooling-system, cost-benefits, data-center-costs, power-utilization on January 3rd, 2009 by FrankM – Comments Off
Options for green data centers are discussed, with ideas ranging from the cooling configuration to increasing utilization maximizing the return of each kilowatt of power. …
… “Well, that’s the challenge for Stewart and other engineers. One solution: using a hot aisle-cold aisle system to help control A.C. costs. ” …
Via PBS Nightly Business Report: Cost of Data Centers
