Data Center Cooling Trends

Host Rich Miller talks with cooling expert Kevin Facinelli, President, Data Center Cooling at Nortek Air Solutions about the challenges of keeping servers cool as data centers get larger and taller. Also: Will vacant office space house servers in the poet-COVID economy?

 

Rich and Kevin discuss key trends in data center cooling, including:

• How to adapt cooling systems for hyperscale data center designs
• The challenges of cooling servers in warm climates like Singapore
• How Nortek's StatePoint cooling solution addresses these challenges
• Trends in rack power density, and how to manage them.
• Will hotter, more powerful servers force a shift from air cooling to liquid cooling?
• The strategic challenges the COVID-19 pandemic poses for data centers.
• An opportunity in the work-from-home boom: Creating micro-data centers in vacant office space. Kevin discusses this trend, what he's seeing, and what may lie ahead.             

 

SHOW NOTES

 

Here are some resources about Nortek:

 

Nortek Air Solutions web site

https://www.nortekair.com/products/data-center-products/

 

Here's the white paper Rich & Kevin discussed on the podcast:

 

Solutions to Data Center Water & Power Availability

https://datacenterfrontier.com/white-paper/solutions-data-center-water-power/

 

An overview of Nortek's StatePoint cooling system and its use in warm climates:

https://datacenterfrontier.com/new-design-helps-facebook-keep-data-cool-in-hot-climates/ 

 

Decreasing Water & Power Will Help Data Centers Reach Sustainability Goals (Nortek Voices column on DCF)

https://datacenterfrontier.com/power-water-data-centers-sustainability-goals/

 

Amid COVID-19, Legionella Raises Key Questions for Data Centers (Nortek Voices column on DCF)

https://datacenterfrontier.com/legionella-is-the-covid-19-of-the-data-center-industry/

 

Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksfacinelli/

 

Here's some of Data Center Frontier's in=depth coverage of some of the trends discussed today:

 

Data Center Cooling Channel
https://datacenterfrontier.com/category/data-center-cooling/

 

Rack Density Keeps Rising at Data Centers

https://datacenterfrontier.com/rack-density-keeps-rising-at-enterprise-data-centers/

 

As Rack Densities Rise, Liquid Cooling Specialists Begin to See Gains

 https://datacenterfrontier.com/as-rack-densities-rise-liquid-cooling-specialists-begin-to-see-gains/​