A closer look at data center cooling strategies, including tips on balancing power efficiency and water usage — a process that is unique to each data center and is affected by continual technology change.
Questions to Ask Your Data Center Partner to Ensure the Smartest Cooling Strategies
When you are selecting a data center partner, ask about the cooling approaches they use. The answers can provide insights into the data center’s ability to meet your expectations and your company’s sustainability goals. This new white paper from Trane explores the ins and outs of data center cooling, and how to ensure the most efficient solution.
The Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Cooling
Amid the global pandemic, societal habits have increased demand for data usage at an “unprecedented rate.” A new white paper from Siemens looks into the details for dynamically match cooling to IT load in real time. The paper contends that artificial intelligence is playing a key role in cooling today’s data centers.
Cooling Edge Data Centers: It Requires More Thought
The team at TAS Energy highlights a variety of different approaches to cooling for edge data centers, from direct expansion cooling systems, to chilled water solutions, free cooling and more.
Applying Sustainability Practices that will Reach Data Center Net-Zero Energy Goals
Kris Holla, Group Vice President, Channel Sales for Nortek Data Center Cooling, highlights how focus on renewable energy alone will not help data centers reach sustainability net-zero goals.
New Report Explores ‘Key Steps’ for Optimizing Data Center Cooling Performance
A new white paper, by Chatsworth Products (CPI) and Innovative Research Inc. (IRI), provides an overview of the key steps for optimizing the cooling performance of air-cooled data centers. This includes employing a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling software tool for analysis and exercising airflow management best practices that will help data center managers understand the what and how of optimizing airflow and, consequently, cooling performance.
Waste Heat Utilization is the Data Center Industry’s Next Step Toward Net-Zero Energy
Kris Holla, Group Vice President, Channel Sales for Nortek Air Solutions, explains how waste heat utilization or heat recycling can work to further data centers quest for energy efficiency and change the industry’s reputation as high energy consumers. However, not all data center cooling technology is suitable for waste heat recovery.
How Prefab Modular Data Center Solutions Fell in Love with Thermal Control
Data Aire’s Eric Jensen explores the growing relationship and connections between the prefab modular data center and thermal control.
New Data Center Cooling Methods to Tackle Water, Power Challenges
There are two major challenges facing the data industry today. A new report from Nortek describes these hurdles are finite water and power resources. A new white paper explores a new data center cooling method called the StatePoint Liquid Cooling (SPLC)4 system from Nortek Solutions, and highlights a case study in Singapore.
Data Centers Feeling the Heat! The History and Future of Data Center Cooling
Dror Shenkar, Senior Architect of Intel Data Center Management Solutions, Intel, and Shahar Belkin, VP R&D at Zuta-Core, explore the past, current and future landscape of data center cooling. What’s next?
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