Review of emerging cooling options for Next gen Data Centers
. by Dr. Michael Ohadi,
Investment and growth in data centers is continuing at a rapid pace. In September Canadian Datacenter operator Cogeco Cable announed a $100 million new data center to come on line in 2014. In a recent study, Datacenter Dynamics Intelligence found that worldwide investment in data centers for 2011 will have grown from US$85 billion dollars to $105 billion. Can we cool all these data centers efficiently enough so that their overall benefit is greater than their cost? In my talk we'll review and discuss emerging cooling options for data centers. We'll consider the tradeoffs and the how-to of such technologies as free air cooling, liquid cooling, dynamic smart-cooling, energy efficiency enhancements in air cooled data centers through cooling advances in metrology