cooling your datacenter?

Currently, the crucial issue for data centers is cooling, and more specifically which system to use while reducing bills and environmental impact.

 

Servers generate a lot of heat in the data center. To protect the hardware and ensure optimum performance, a number of factors need to be taken into account: hygrometry (linked to humidity levels), temperature, air quality, etc. To cope with these constraints, energy-intensive cooling systems are required, which weighs heavily on the data center's operating costs.

 

Moreover, the environmental impact of data centers has become an increasingly important issue over the past decade. Proof of this is that even the highest European authorities are sensitive to this issue, and are imposing more and more measures and legislation in this field. Data centers are no exception to the trend towards environmental protection, and for good reason: they have a high energy impact.

 

In addition to changing equipment or using renewable energy sources, the cooling method you choose can be an important factor in this dual quest for profitability and sustainability. You have several choices:

• Free cooling, which directly uses cold outside air, which is filtered and brought into the data rooms,

• direct cooling, in which heat is transferred from the equipment to the refrigerant by convection or conduction, depending on the system,

• The use of adiabatic cooling based on the passage of outside air through humid media to evaporate water, thus lowering the temperature of the forced air.

 

When looking for a cooling system for a data center, your main objective is often to find the one that offers the best combination of efficiency and safety. With so many methods to choose from, it can be difficult to decide which is the most appropriate.

 

Thanks to a partnership between Bioclimas and Aveltec, a French company specializing in this field, we can offer you a solution that can reduce your data center's operating costs by up to 40%.

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How?

 

Thanks to a hybrid system combining free cooling and indirect adiabatic cooling .

 

In Belgium, free cooling is sufficient 90% of the time. For the remaining 10%, the cooling adiabatic system kicks in and pulses fresh air. The great advantage of this system is that it considerably reduces energy consumption, and therefore electricity bills. In addition, the safety of the data center is guaranteed by the cooling adiabatic system, which provides the necessary back-up.

 

By opting for this hybrid system, you benefit from a less expensive and more secure data center!