Cooling: Comfort or Precision?

What you don’t know might cost you. Cooling requirements should be a primary factor in the development of a data center. However it’s not always given proper consideration, especially in small and remote facilities, that are less likely to be planned and probably evolve based on need.

Thus the debate begins - Comfort Cooling vs. Precision Cooling. Cold air is cold air, temperature is temperature, correct? No, not at all.

At first consideration traditional cooling (comfort) air systems designed for buildings can be implemented quickly and cost efficiently but the needs of the data center are different. Critical IT equipment may experience a variety of issues if not sitting in the proper environment. Although precision cooling may seem more expensive to implement, the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is eye-opening

This whitepaper from Emerson makes a compelling case for the need behind precision cooling. It reviews:

Follow this discussion through and review a formulated analysis on cooling TCO. Understand what might look like cost efficiency could indeed be wasteful and possibly harmful.