Ten Unique Data Center Designs

Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010) Power and Cooling , Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Across the globe, many data center designs use an amazing amount of creativity in locating and deploying unique data centers. These are not your run-of-the-mill server rooms, but truly one-of-a-kind facilities that have a personality all their own. There is more to data center design than the straightforward mechanical approach, according to Rob Snevely, author of Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology. “The detailed process of data center design appears on the outset to be a purely mechanical process involving the layout of the area, computations to determine equipment capacities, and innumerable other engineering details,” Snevely writes. “They are, of course, essential to the design and creation of a data center, however, the mechanics alone do not a data center make. The use of pure mechanics rarely creates anything that is useful, except perhaps by chance.” He goes on to discuss design philosophies that go back to classical times. (Read Full Article)

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