Cooling For Your Business’ Data Centre

Any individual who owns a data centre or a computer room will obviously require some form of data centre cooling for their equipment. This seems to be one of the most complex, confusing and costly factors involved in such a business. A lot of the reasoning behind this is that most people do not actually understand the basics of cooling equipment and what options they have available to them. This post aims to give such people a helping hand by giving an insight into what people should know about data centre cooling.

Let’s start with the very basics; the difference between cooling equipment specifically designed for data centres and the standard office equipment. This will help you understand why you need different configurations for air conditioning for offices and your data centre. The equipment that is used in a regular office is simply not sufficient enough for a computer room. Many people have made the mistake of utilising such standard tools for such big equipment and they have felt the drastic and damaging consequences. As I am sure anybody who has high tech equipment knows; the need for it to be looked after properly is an important one. Standard office equipment cannot fulfil this need and thus it ends up actually damaging the equipment rather than maintaining it.

Data centre cooling is obviously all about finding and maintaining the right temperature in a room so that the equipment inside it can function properly. The tools used to find this balance both aid by removing heat as well as producing cool air. There are different types of systems instilled in order to achieve this, for example, there is the chilled water method which basically revolves around the utilisation of water to exclude the heat from the room and then return in a cooler form. This is of course not the only method use; nevertheless it tends to be a popular one in many of the data cooling equipment found today.

The methods used, such as the chilled water method, are obviously all found within the products that one selects to use in their data centre or computer room. There are a whole host of different cooling equipment available to choose from, such as; chilled racks and air conditioning units. Each option has its benefits and which one is the best to use all depends on the room and the equipment itself. There are a whole host of factors which determine which cooling system is the best one to opt for, for instance, the layout of the room can play a massive role as it can mean that some cooling equipment is simply not feasible. Nevertheless, despite the array of factors involved, chilled racks seem to be one of the most popular options amongst businesses with a computer room.

What’s more, the business owners in question must obviously sit down and think about the budget they have as data cooling systems vary in price dramatically and some options can be rather costly.

Hopefully this article will have provided a greater insight into data centre cooling. It appears complex and confusing on the eye but once the basics have been dissected it is certainly a lot easier to understand.