Data Centers Can be Even Warmer

Data Center Knowledge (Feb 22 2011) Servers

1. The leading industry group for heating and cooling professionals, ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), says that it will continue to widen the temperature and humidity ranges for servers through a soon-to-be-published third edition of the datacom book, “Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments.” For some time now, leading players in the data center industry have been raising the temperature in their data center, savings hundreds of thousands of dollars in cooling costs in the process. The list of companies singing the praises of savings through higher baseline temperature settings in the data center includes Google, Intel, Microsoft and HP. (Read Full Article)

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