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Data centres are the heartbeat that powers so much of what we do. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to use the Internet, the cloud services that power our work, or the entertainment, streaming, and gaming that we do at home. Running a data centre is an intensive task, requiring powerful technology, and to maximise the stability and longevity, having properly configured data centre cooling is essential.
To ensure optimal performance, the servers and other technologies in data centres should be kept within the recommended operating temperature range that their vendors supply. Traditionally, this has meant around 18 degrees. However, keeping a data centre cooled to 18 degrees is going to require massive amounts of power through the data centre cooling system. To help reduce cooling costs, vendors have been working to increase the range with which technology comfortably operates, and now the recommended range tends to be between 20-25 degrees, and as high as 27 degrees.
The benefits of data centre cooling
First and foremost, data centre cooling helps deliver increased uptime of your environment. When servers run too hot, they can fail, and when that happens, the entire data centre can cease to function as needed.
Because downtime can be expensive – making a website inaccessible to customers or preventing your people from doing their work – most businesses want to achieve 99.99% uptime – mere minutes of downtime in any given month. This can only be achieved with a properly configured data centre cooling system.
The right data centre cooling system can also deliver a longer lifespan for the technology. Systems that “run hot” and regularly fail from overheating are far more prone to suffer permanent hardware failure and need replacing.
Finally, the right data centre cooling system can deliver better sustainability. Data centres account for one per cent of the world’s total electricity consumption, and cooling is a massive factor in this. To reduce the costs of running a data centre, it’s important that you have a data centre cooling system that is not only effective, but efficient.
Why Fletchair for data centre cooling
There are many different ways to improve cooling within the data centre. Liquid cooling is a common one (using cold water pumped through the system to cool the technology as is passes by), but other considerations include air cooling (via a computer room air conditioner, or CRAC), raised floors (which create a “pool” of cool air beneath the servers and cool upwards), and air flow. A well-designed data centre environment will have “hot and cold isles” which use the flow of air through the space to help control the overall ambient temperature
Because data centres need to be so carefully architected and designed, it’s crucial that you have the right support in implementing the cooling system. That’s where Fletchair comes in. We work closely with all our customers to understand their specific needs and deliver a data centre cooling system that delivers the right temperatures at maximum efficiency.
We go well beyond simply installing cooling
We are proactive, not reactive, and that is why clients so highly regard our data centre cooling service. By partnering deeply and strategically with each of our clients, we provide advice not only on the ideal configuration for their data centre, but also on the best approach to take for servicing and maintenance. We offer a comprehensive end-to-end service that many of our clients benefit from because they know that their systems will be managed to run optimally once they partner with us.
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Whether you’re looking to deploy a new data centre environment, or improve the efficiency and reliability of your existing one, the team at Fletchair are looking forward to hearing from you.