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These systems can potentially operate in free cooling mode year-round, leveraging both dry and adiabatic cooling based on external conditions.This can translate to low reliance on mechanical cooling and potentially exceptional PUE values..
Using water for adiabatic cooling allows the unit to cool the air close to the wet bulb temperature of the ambient air as opposed to the dry bulb temperature (dry cooling).Due to the wet bulb temperature being often many degrees below coincident dry bulb temperature, in high dry bulb conditions this can mitigate the requirement for mechanical cooling.. Data Centre with DEC unit.Chilled water system flexibility.
The most common systems installed in data centres use chilled water as the medium between the internal and external units.Chilled water systems offer significant flexibility:.
Data hall configuration:.
Chilled water systems can accommodate various data hall layouts and are suitable for future integration of liquid cooling technologies.. Heat rejection plant location:.Data centres developments have baseline costs like utilities, land, civils and structure...
So the more data centre capacity you can fit onto your site, the more IT yield per square metre you will get, and the lower your cost per kW will be.. As data centre designers, we must aim to maximise the site yield.Here’s how we can do this:.
It is not uncommon for permitted development on data centre sites to be limited to around 20 metres .A typical hyperscale data centre design, with the racks, then space for cabling and power, then a ceiling void and structure, will have a storey-to-storey height of often of seven or eight metres, and sometimes more.