Cooling
Free For All
Brendan Leonard, managing director at Stulz UK, explains the benefits of free cooling and how
it can proactively create efficiency and have a positive impact upon data centre optimisation.
D
ata centre cooling is a
continually evolving
science due to the
amount of equipment
variations possible and
the number of options in terms
of facility design and operation.
26 | August 2017
There is now a plethora of cooling
methodologies, from hot aisle to
cold aisle, row containment, rack
containment and water cooling,
but one of the most effective
– both in terms of cost and
application – is free cooling.
Power ranger
Data centres consume almost
as much energy for non-computing
resources as they do in powering
their servers. That is why Power
Usage Effectiveness (PUE) has
become such a prevalent industry