Facebook Datacenter, Prineville, Oregon Technology For Improving Power Usage Effectiveness When the Open Compute Project launched it’s first data center in Prineville, Oregon, it selected a system that uses both outside air and the cooling power of water. However, in this case it didn’t involve pumping huge volumes of water through the data center, instead using a natural evaporative…
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Cheyenne, Wyoming The Benefits of MeeFog Technology: Allows data centers to safely use outside air for cooling without damaging equipment Lower operating costs compared to other types of humidification systems Cools as well as humidifies the air Challenge When the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) decided to build a…
Major Financial Institution, New York City Metropolitan Area Benefits: Able to put more computing equipment in same building without upgrading cooling equipment Able to keep operating on days that exceed design specifications of cooling system Lower energy bills for cooling Challenge To boost the capacity of the existing rooftop condenser units for an 80,000 square…
A major financial institution operates two mirrored data centers to service its New York City operations. One of these occupies the second floor in a 14-story brick building, originally built in 1912 to house a department store, which is now a multi-tenant structure hosting computing and telecom equipment. The 87,000 square foot data center contains…