Embrace Next Generation Cooling Methods with Able-One Systems and OptiCool™
By Grant Sojnocki President, Able-One Systems
Our IT industry has experienced significant technical advancements, specifically within the data center, over the last number of years. Storage, memory, networking and server technology is better than it has ever been, and these advancements allowing our customers here at Able-One Systems to deliver faster, better service to their end users than ever before. The increasing density of this technology within the data center has a very real environmental downside. It’s a problem we’re passionate about solving at Able-One Systems, and we believe we’re uniquely positioned to make a difference.
Is it hot in here?
The problem is a fairly simple one to wrap your head around. When you up the power, you up the heat. When you up the heat in a data center housing millions in sensitive equipment, you need to effectively remove that heat in order to protect the equipment and prevent catastrophic failure.
This is not a new problem, just a growing one. The heat load generated by computing electronics within equipment racks has doubled over the last eight years. Yet businesses continue to use traditional and fundamentally flawed methods to cool entire rooms flooded with heat from hot electronics. The heat is climbing and we’re throwing air conditioners or air movement contrivances at the problem. It is simply not a sustainable, or smart planet, approach.
This extra cooling contributes significantly to overall energy cost, the fastest growing expense for a data center manager. In a 2011 article in the New York Times, it was reported that Google, a gorilla in the data center world, continuously uses enough electricity to power more than 200,000 homes, and its estimated carbon emissions for 2010 were just shy of 1.5 million tons – nearly all attributed to the carbon fuels required to provide electricity necessary for power and cooling. Estimates show s in North America now account for 2-3% of all electricity consumed.
So what is the answer to this dilemma? In our next blog post we’ll explore some innovative new methods for data centre cooling.
Come Meet Able-One Systems at DatacenterDynamics Converged!
Meet up with our team, and gain new insights on cooling at Toronto DatacenterDynamics Converged Event, happening November 27th at the Allstream Centre. You can find us at booth #11.
