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| April 02, 2012 Your Data Center May be Hot but Environmental Monitoring Units Can Withstand the Heat If you thought last summer was hot – with countless 100 plus degree days and sweltering beach days –imagine if you were a data center manager who was forced to spend every day in a data center, where the temperature is steadily rising because it is simply too expensive to keep it very cool.
Recently, data center managers at a Google (News  - Alert) center in Belgium had enough with the rising temperatures, which caused them to flock to the climate-controlled sections of the building. Google’s Belgium data center represents the first company facility to rely solely upon fresh air for cooling instead of energy chillers. This approach has helped Google establish the most efficient data center but it has alienated data center managers as well.
For the majority of the year, the managers are temperature happy in the data center as the climate in Belgium is cool enough to keep the data center manageable. But when it gets hot in Belgium, the Google data center warms considerably, causing data center managers to have to abandon the servers – periods that the company refers to as “excursion hours.” During this time, data center temperatures can swell to 95 degrees, and that’s when humans leave the sever area, according to company officials... Read More
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