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Here are some more analytics and data visualizations, this time on using outside air to cool a data center. When using this type of strategy, the hourly outside temperature and humidity conditions will drive the overall strategy and control of the HVAC systems. This is why it is critical to develop a...
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The FEDERAL LEADERSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL, ENERGY,AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE presidential order went into effect on October 5, 2009. The main goal of the order is to "to establish an integrated strategy towards sustainability in the Federal Government and to make reduction of greenhouse gas emissions...
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On September 22, 2009, the EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson signed the rule on a new greenhouse gas emission reporting program which is a pre-cursor to potential carbon taxing policy. The reporting is for the top carbon emitters in the U.S, primarily from the manufacturing sector where carbon emissions...
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09-24-2009
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If you follow news related to the development of renewable energy technology, you’ll know that the United States is not keeping pace with other countries in research and development. And it is not just European countries but India and China as well. I don’t want to stray into the political...
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For some weird reason, I have always been intrigued with charts, maps, graphs, etc. Anything that tells a story or conveys information without using a lot of words and numbers attracts my attention. I guess it is the geeky engineer in me. So I have turned this interest into something that actually is...
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I am an avid F1 fan. For those of you who aren’t familiar with F1, it is THE most widely watched international sport and is a multi-billion dollar industry. The cars are the pinnacle of engineering technology and cost upwards of US$20MM. The cars measure fuel efficiency by how many laps they can...
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(Bill Kosik is the Green Business Technology Principal for HP's Critical Facilities Services Group. In addition to project assignments, he is responsible for research and analysis on new techniques to optimize power use in data centers. He is a licensed professional mechanical engineer, a Certified...
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06-24-2009
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I frequently get asked questions on what the future holds for government regulation of data center energy use. Although there are not completed plans in place, there are many programs early in the development stage. Here are some things going on: EPA is still working on their data center Energy Star...
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05-08-2009
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By Kfir L Godrich, HP CFS CTO Difficult times indeed for the market in general and for the Data Center market in particular. Most of the questions related to remediation have some interesting answers. Here is one of my favorites published lately in Condé Nast Portfolio Magazine from Eric Maskin, 2007...
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Developing energy efficient and environmentally responsible strategies for enterprise business technology systems requires a wide and deep view along with integrated multi-disciplinary expertise. Only small gains can be made using a traditional silo approach where facilities, hardware and software are...
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02-03-2009
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I continue to see an on-going debate about defining PUE, including comparisons of one data center to another. What is particularly interesting are PUE comparisons that present PUE numbers accurate to the second significant digit. Also, the numbers are typically presented out of context, without crucial...
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02-03-2009
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At a recent family holiday party, I was involved in a few conversations with topics such as mission critical, fuel cells, water-cooled systems and conserving electricity. You might think we were discussing the latest ideas in data center design (only geeky engineers like me talk about data center design...
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01-02-2009
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(Note: This post is an excerpt from an e-mail inquiry that I responded to regarding using the LEED rating system for new data center facilities. I thought is was very timely and relevant). When designing power, cooling and building envelope systems for data center facilities, the goal is to make the...
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Humidity control in data centers, where the regulation of the environmental conditions is essential to the successful outcome of the process, is often one of the more misunderstood aspects of the HVAC design for these buildings As early researchers and inventors of air conditioning processes and equipment...
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Green building rating systems such as LEED, Green Globes, BREEAM all encourage designers to select products and materials that minimize the negative environmental impacts of building products over the lifetime of a building. Such considerations are embodied in what is known as a lifecycle analysis (LCA...