All-in-One Guides:Data center design and infrastructure guide
Chapter 3: Data center cooling
Data center cooling metrics and design
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Cooler rooms or cooler servers?
Tip - As the data center faces a warming trend, what makes more sense: designing a room that stays cooler or designing a cooler server?
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New cooling technologies could cut energy costs
Tip - Energy costs and demands for more power are skyrocketing in the data center. But there are new technologies and design strategies that could help you cut down the price of your juice.
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Fears of cooling with outside air may be unfounded
04 Dec 2006
Article - The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will finish a study by the end of the year looking at the potential benefits and drawbacks of using outside air to cool a data center.
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What's the best way to install a wall vapor barrier?
Tip - We have a 5,000 square foot computer room in the interior of a 40,000 square foot office, which is one floor of multi-story building. The computer room wall is 2HR rated with noise batts.
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Monitoring temperature in the data center
Ask the Expert - Bob McFarlane explains that although it's not possible to measure cooling consumption, you can protect your data center by monitoring power consumption and placing temperature and humidity monitors in key locations.
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Improved airflow cools off overheated data center
30 Jan 2007
Article - With systems on the brink of burning up, Osram Sylvania made small changes to its data center layout that kept servers cool -- and saved them money to boot.
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Using ASHRAE specs for data center metrics
Tip - Measure proper temperature and humidity using Ashrae's Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments.