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Your Data Center is Much too Cold
Reuters.com (Sep 2 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers
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Most data center managers keep their facilities much too cold -- as much as 15 percent too cold, according to a server expert at Intel.
In an article by Rik Myslewski published yesterday in The Register, Dylan Larson, Intel's director of server platform technology initiatives, explained last week that keeping data centers in the low 70s and high 60s leads to a significant amount of excess cooling, and wasted energy.
The ideal temperature, per Larson as well as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), is a balmy 80 degrees.
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