RRDC Adds Outside Air Cooling

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

November 18, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — On the outskirts of Denver, the Red Rocks Data Center (www.redrocksdatacenter.com) will now be cooled for more than 80 percent of the year by cool mountain air, after installing an air economizer that pulls in and filters outside air to cool customers’ servers.
 
According to the company’s Monday announcement, Morrison, Colorado-based RRDC, which provides managed IT infrastructure for colocation, dedicated servers and virtual private servers, has installed a Trane Voyager (www.trane.com) air economizer system, cutting the its cooling costs to one-sixth of its previous consumption using conventional air conditioning.

“By cutting our consumption of green house gas emitting, coal-fired electricity, we have put our money where our mouth is in regards to becoming one of Colorado’s greenest data centers while passing the cost savings onto our customers,” RRDC managing partner Tom Nats said in a statement. “This system raises the bar in power efficiency for the modern data center and is the model of the future.” (more…)

Tags: cooling, data center, Red Rocks Data Center

Heat Wheel Reduces Facility Energy

By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

November 17, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A fairly new data center cooling technique called “heat wheel,” which is also referred to as a rotary heat exchanger or Kyoto Cooling (www.kyotocooling.com/KyotoCooling.html), is seeing more widespread use, according to this report by Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge.
 
The technology, which fine-tunes existing techniques that use outside air to improve cooling efficiency and lower energy bills, will be showcased in an upcoming demonstration at the CyberCenter data center in Amersfoort, The Netherlands.

Representatives of UpTime Technology (www.uptimetech.com), Chatsworth (www.chatsworth.com) and KPN (www.kpn.com/kpn/show/id=838669) will present at the seminar series, which will be held on December 1 to 4. (more…)

Tags: Chatsworth, cooling, heat wheel, KPN, Uptime Technology

Gartner Urges Facilities to Go ‘Green’

By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

November 3, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Independent IT research firm Gartner Research (www.gartner.com) says there is an increasing need for data center managers to update their facilities or they run the risk of doubling their energy costs between 2005 and 2011, according to reports by PC World.
 
The research firm warns companies that any data centers constructed within the past 10 years are more or less environmentally unsustainable.

To combat these rising costs, Gartner vice president Rakesh Kumar says that data center managers should upgrade to new, high-density equipment, which offers more advanced power and cooling capabilities. (more…)

Tags: cooling, energy efficiency, Gartner Research

UPS Is Delivered Green Award

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

September 2, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center research organization the Uptime Institute (uptimeinstitute.org) has given the United Parcel Service’s (ups.com) Windward data center a Green Enterprise IT Award based on the facility’s energy conservation measures including natural cooling.

Located in Alpharetta, Georgia, the Windward UPS facility won the “Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure (Power and Cooling) Overhead” category in the inaugural Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT Awards to be awarded every year.

According to a report from TMCnet (tmcnet.com), UPS’s energy efficient data center includes two centrifugal chillers providing 2,000 tons of cooling and two absorption chillers providing an additional 800 tons each. More importantly, the center boasts a 650,000-gallon thermal storage tank thatdissipates heat cost effectively and provides 20 hours of emergency cooling. (more…)

Tags: cooling, data center, energy efficiency, UPS, Uptime Institute

n|Frame Hosts Efficiency Webinar

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

August 29, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center services provider n|Frame (nframe.com) will be hosting a free Webinar entitled “Complicated Equation: Facility Power + Cooling = Uptime,” to help businesses deal with the rising cost of data center energy and cooling.

On Wednesday, September 10, at 10 a.m. EST, Indianapolis-based n|Frame’s webinar promises to simplify the equation, providing proof that technology and business professionals can find solutions to their data center energy and cooling needs.

Organizations are increasingly outsourcing their internal data centers to commercial providers becasue of skyrocketing cooling and energy prices, and increasing energy demand, n|Frame stated on its website. (more…)

Tags: cooling, data center, energy efficiency, n|Frame, US Energy Information Administration

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