New Equinix Sites Using Raised Floors

Data Center Knowledge (Aug 18 2010)

1. Equinix recently opened two new data centers in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, and has posted virtual tour videos of the new facilities on the company’s YouTube channel. What caught my eye was that the video depicts a data center design using a raised-floor and a cold aisle containment system. Why is this notable? Equinix has been one of the leading practitioners of using a solid slab floor rather than a raised floor design in its major U.S. data centers. In most recent Equinix-built data centers, the cabinets sit on a hard surface and cool air enters the room from overhead, taking advantage of the natural tendency for cold air to fall and hot air to rise – which eliminates the need to use air pressure to force cool air up through a raised floor. (Read Full Article)

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