by Ian Seaton | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog
Cooling Efficiency Algorithms: Air-Side Economizers and Temperature Differentials I prefer the term “economizer” to “free cooling” for obvious enough reasons: It’s not free. Even air-side economization does not merely require opening the windows. Beyond fans to... 
by Ian Seaton | Jan 2, 2019 | Blog
Cooling Efficiency Algorithms: Economizers and Temperature Differentials (Water-Side Economizers – Parallel) Next to powering all our IT equipment, powering the mechanical plant to cool all that IT equipment is the largest energy consumer in the data center and... 
by Ian Seaton | Dec 12, 2018 | Blog
Should Enterprise Owners Consider Liquid Cooling? Should enterprise data center owners consider liquid cooling? The answer is, “Yes.” Should enterprise owners adopt liquid cooling for their data centers? The answer is, “Maybe.” Moving from “consideration” to... 
by Ian Seaton | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog
Six Steps to Harvest Airflow Management Returns After nearly twenty years of promoting the benefits of data center airflow management, I am afraid I need to confess that sometimes I may leap directly into the minutia of some operational algorithm or perhaps into a... 
by Ian Seaton | Nov 7, 2018 | Blog
Cooling Efficiency Algorithms: Economizers and Temperature Differentials (Water-Side Economizers – Series) In previous pieces I have discussed algorithms for accounting for the relationship between pressure drop and data center fan energy and the relationship...