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Keeping cool: Managing the
data centre environment
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Munters is a global provider
of energy efficient air
treatment systems installed
worldwide. It has offices
in 30 countries with over
3,500 employees. It is
the leading international
provider of evaporative air
cooling, temperature and
humidity control solutions.
When it comes to data
centres, Munters currently
cools over 1GW of rejected
heat while achieving low
partial PUE results, CO 2
emissions and high energy
savings. We asked Simon
Young, Munters’ Data Centre
Regional Sales Manager to
explain more about the work
of the company.
of computer equipment, and possibly even
more disastrously, the data stored on them,
could become broken, corrupted and fit only
for scrap.
Why is it important to control the
indoor climate of data centres? How do different climate zones pose
different challenges?
Heat omissions from the servers in data
halls can get very hot, very quickly, unless
large scale cooling systems are built into the
structure. Fans can blow warm air away from
delicate internal components but that simply
pushes the heat elsewhere. Unless the entire
room is air-conditioned and cooled moving
the air around will do very little to protect
the processors. In a best case scenario, they
will simply shutdown and refuse to switch
on again until the temperature has fallen.
In a worst case, thousands of pounds worth With variations in outdoor temperatures
there will be extreme climate zones, large
scale cooling products need to be flexible
and adaptable to manage and keep
consistent temperatures to the data centre.
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How is data centre cooling evolving
to meet the industry’s focus on
energy efficiency?
The amount of energy needed for cooling
the world’s data centres is huge and
expecting to triple in the next 10 years
both in terms of cost and in environmental
impact. Thirty to 40% of energy
consumption in a typical data centre is
attributed to cooling. Thermal loads inside
data centres and electronic enclosures must
be managed efficiently, therefore, using
solutions that minimise energy consumption.
Munters’ products are pushing the cooling
boundaries by offering not only an energy
efficient system using the latest efficient
fan and heat exchanger technologies,
but also ones that can be scalable and
optimised for various building designs.
These can include single or multi storey
facilities with various deployments such
as perimeter, rooftop, gantry rooftop, plus
other factors such as regional hot and
humid climates and locations.
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