DATA CENTRE COOLING


Value driven cooling strategy saves £200K per year for hi-tech data centre


Data centres are constantly striving to reduce their energy costs whilst efficiently managing their heat loads an reducing their environmental impact. One tech company in the city, with the help of Aermec is managing to reduce its energy bills by £200K per annum.


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eliable cooling is a critical and an essential part of any data centre’s infrastructure but a well-designed cooling strategy can reap dividends. One of the company’s mission critical customers is taking advantage of super-efficient compressor technologies that is helping to reduce its carbon footprint, has boosted EER ratings and enabled the annual energy bill to be reduced significantly so that over the next 10 years they can expect to save up to £2 million.


Based in London, the carrier neutral co-location site offers tailored solutions from office space to suites with cages, rack cabinets, dedicated servers, virtual servers as well as the hosting of individual servers. The sire had used its existing cooling system for over 20 years.


Following a detailed analysis, it became apparent that the chillers were not capable of delivering the energy efficiencies. They were unequal in size, making sequencing for N+1


resilience difficult to achieve. The criticality of the site also required fast re-start. Simple enough? Logistics and restricted access posed a number of significant problems and it became apparent that standard chillers would not be suitable nor would they deliver the required energy savings. By working collaboratively, the customer and its partners developed a bespoke cooling strategy that would take advantage of advances in technology, improve the data


42 November 2019


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