Datacentre cooling infrastructure

Because it's very easy to waste your facility's cooling capacity, datacentre cooling can be a complex process. The various options for controlling temperature and air flow in high-density datacentres can further complicate decision making. You must choose between air-side and water-side economizers, hot-aisle and cold-aisle containment, and raised, perforated and solid floors. In this topic, get advice on making these important decisions and learn about strategies for cooling your servers and IT equipment, including HVAC systems, computer room air conditioners (CRACs), and liquid cooling.

December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21
Lithium-ion batteries find their way into datacentres

Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being deployed in uninterruptible power supply systems to reduce datacentre real estate and energy consumption
November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21
UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut

Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course
November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21
OpenUK debuts carbon-negative datacentre blueprint at COP26

Open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and hardware reuse
October 19, 2021 19 Oct'21
Government flags opportunity for re-use of waste datacentre heat in net-zero strategy

UK government's long-awaited net-zero strategy document makes the case for the creation of heat networks that could see waste heat from datacentres used to warm homes and businesses

Riskier business: How Brexit could be changing downtime risk and resilience in the datacentre

As the UK enters the final quarter of its first year from the Brexit transition period, the risk picture for local datacentres remains unclear Continue Reading
Could Iceland be the best place in the world for high-performance computing?

Most of Iceland’s cheap, sustainable energy is currently used by aluminium smelters, but recognising the need to diversify, the Landsvirkjun power company now promotes other uses Continue Reading
The second coming: The Nordic datacentre market comes of age

As concerns mount about space and power constraints within several of Europe’s largest datacentre hubs, enterprises are being urged to consider shifting more of their energy-intensive workloads to the Nordic countries Continue Reading