Hot Data Centre, Very Very Hot
Saturday, September 15th, 2007Data centres pack lots of cool technology in them. The technology make them hot. Literally hot too, considering the amount of heat they dissipate. Now, combine that with a cooling crisis and you truly have a recipe for disaster.
Here’s what happened recently in a data centre I run. An unfortunate turn of events led to both the primary and backup cooling systems to fail together. Basically, the entire server area was without any cooling at all. As you can imagine, the room temperature became severely elevated. You can see from the AHU Air Temperature graph that the return air temperature climbed from about 26 degrees celcius to peak at 50 degrees celcius! That happened in about 1.5 hours.
