As a techie in the HVAC industry this video made me super excited

philz1982

Ok, maybe I'm the only one who geeks out over this but hot damn, this video of Google's data center is schweet. They have their condensing coils right up against their racks and run their DC's at 80 degrees. At the end of the video you see their line of cooling towers, its like 2 football fields long...

I remember working on an AT&T data center and the generators for the Tier 4 dc would produce 70MPH winds when they were running these were generators the size of train engines.

I gotta add, I've never seen someone skating through a data center pushing along a cart of rack parts before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmGGAbHqa0&amp

networker050184

Pushing the hand cart that well on a razor was hands down the most impressive part of the video.

philz1982

Ya, I was watching that and was like um, that is a disaster waiting to happen. I mean those carts are hard enough to push by themselves.

Priston

Netapp's GDL2 has a interesting HVAC setup, this video doesn't really show or tell you much about it though. If you live near the area you should definitely try and take an in-person tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY9BoaapsOI

philz1982

Ya, I live in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin. Nothing cool up here that I am aware of...

Claymoore

Plenty of wind in Wisconsin and the naturally cold air should allow someone to build a 100% renewable energy data center running free-air cooling circulated from the outside without the need for A/C. Facebook has a datacenter in Sweden that uses free-air, and Intel proved you can run one in New Mexico. I'd take the .2% higher equipment failure rate on stuff that I will upgrade anyway over the high monthly A/C bills. Perhaps the only thing holding Wisconsin back is the lack of good transport interconnect?

Rick9

When I read 'HVAC' I immediately thought of linking the BAM blog, then I saw the OP.

philz1982

Lol, well at least I have 1 person's name recognition