1. Google shares its data center cooling best practice - water and hot aisle containment "hot huts"

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    Google shares its data center cooling best practice - water and hot aisle containment "hot huts"
    Google has an end user friendly explanation of its data center cooling. Our emphasis on cooling systems might come as a surprise, until you consider how warm a personal computer can become during use. Data centers, which house thousands of computers, need to stay within a specific operating temperature range. Even though we run our facilities hotter than a typical data center, we need cooling systems - both to prevent server breakdowns and to provide a reasonable working environment for technicians working on the data center floor.After servers, the second largest consumer of power in a data center is the cooling system. We needed a cooling system which minimized our overall energy consumption. For this reason, we designed our own cooling systems from the ground up.  The interior of a hot hut row Google uses hot aisle containment (hot huts) creating a higher delta T  across the water cooling coils ...
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