design & facilities management
HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
Traditional data centres are designed for a low PUE rating, but Kevin Brown of
Schneider Electric questions whether the impact of the IT load is more important.
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s Internet based
computing evolves, the
data centres that house
much of the processing
power and data storage
will become increasingly important.
With an increase for service and
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computing power, the infrastructure
will also become increasingly varied
in size and make-up to support the
diversification of IT services. This, in
turn, will create new requirements for
data centres that cannot be realised
through a ‘one size fits all’ approach.
One consequence is that
energy management will become
a more complex problem. Among
the variables affecting the energy
performance of a data centre are
its size, layout, utilisation density,
type of cooling infrastructure