David Watkins, Solutions Director for VIRTUS Data Centres, explores some data centre cooling best practices to help data centre managers take greater advantage of energy savings, whilst providing improved cooling of IT systems and cost efficiencies.

What is the right ambient and peak temperature set point? And will data centre cooling failures become more common? Luke Neville, Managing Director, i3 Solutions Group, weighs in.

Flooding the data centre with cold supply air, in combination with an appropriate hot aisle containment solution, makes for a cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly facility, as Gordon Johnson, Senior CFD Engineer at Subzero Engineering, explains.

Chris Wellfair, Projects Director at Secure I.T. Environments, gives us a data centre year in review, and explores what the focus should be for 2023.

Innovations in data centre cooling are paving the way to a more sustainable future, says Emilia Coverdale, Marketing Project Manager at Asperitas.

The Future Campus project at University College Dublin (UCD) called for space utilised by facility plant and equipment to be given up for development to support the student population. Total Power Solutions, an Elite Partner to Schneider Electric, worked with UCD’s IT services organisation to upgrade its primary data centre cooling system, to provide greater resilience for its HPC operations whilst releasing valuable real estate.

Data centre water use is once again under the microscope. Adam Yarrington, Business Unit Leader, Director – Data Centres at Airedale by Modine, asks: are you ready to change course?

BP subsidiary Castrol plans to build an immersion cooling test and development facility for data centres at its global headquarters in Pangbourne, UK.

Gordon Johnson, Senior CFD Engineer at Subzero Engineering, explains how to avoid costly flaws with data centre flooring.

Schneider Electric, working alongside Total Power Solutions, has designed and implemented a high efficiency cooling system to help reduce the PUE of University College Dublin’s (UCD) main production data centre.