The overheating problem in data centers is getting worse. Enterprise core hardware must be properly cooled, but energy costs increase exponentially as the temperature rises. Fortunately, even the most frugal of businesses often don't need to conduct an overall IT operations overhaul to reduce their AC bills. Here are some tips you can use to not only reduce your business’s cooling system expenses, but also reduce the environmental impact of your business’s processes.
1. Use heat to heat. According to Dave Douglas, vice president of environmental products at Sun Microsystems, energy consumption can be reduced by 4% to 5% just by slightly raising the data center set point temperature. Increasing the set point temperature from 20 degrees to 22 degrees can save 15% to 20% of cooling energy. "This adjustment still ensures that the air inlet temperature is within the requirements of the Computer Equipment Code."
In fact, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers recommends that modern data centers should be set at 25.5 degrees, which is the temperature that will achieve the greatest energy savings.
2. Block the holes in the raised floor. While plugging holes in raised floors, which allow cold air and heat to escape, is widely considered the best approach, a more common approach is to plug cable holes in the lower parts of racks and cases. Cooling efficiency can also be improved by placing blank insert panels on unused space in front of the rack.
3. Enter the hot zone. Some experts recommend setting up hot and cold ducts in the data center. In this design, the ducts between each server rack are bound to either the hot air outlet or the cold air inlet. This purpose is to keep the heat in contact with the cold air. The air is isolated and extracted before mixing.
4. Unplug some plugs. Hopefully you have a way of knowing which machines in the data center are being utilized, otherwise, you should make an inventory of the assets. Once you have your inventory and identify which machines are not being utilized, unplug those machines and you will immediately feel the savings on power and cooling bills.
5. Air and water materials or mixed materials can assist in effective transfer and choose the most economical cooling method in a suitable environment. Experts gave advice to data research network companies and said: "Air materials are very cheap in terms of overall asset costs, and apart from the regulating device which consumes a little energy, no other basic energy is required. Water materials use cooling towers for evaporative cooling. , perform heat exchange in an ice-water circulation system, so the cost in tons is $100, and if the design is good, the performance coefficient will increase by 100 or even 125 units.
The above are some tips, these tips are only the most basic, but their implementation will be very meaningful. Can help you achieve cost savings.