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Cooling a datacenter

Server airflowOne of the major problems when operating a datacenter is to cool your serverrooms in the most efficient way. Servers are growing faster, bigger, more power consuming then ever, causing more heat in your racks. Improving the cooling systems will reduce costs, might give your datacenter more capacity (more servers with the same cooling capacity) and is a good thing for the environment (and don’t tell me you don’t want to be a green). In this article I will discuss the solutions EvoSwitch (LeaseWeb housing facility) has taken to improve the quality of cooling and reduce costs.

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