Indirect Evaporative Cooling Drives Data Center Efficiency

A data center is a building used to house and reliably support compute, storage, and networking equipment, termed by ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9 (TC 9.9) as information technology equipment (ITE). The reliable and energy-efficient operation of the ITE equipment is crucial for business continuity, with design strategies devised to deliver continuous availability with zero downtime. The engineering architectures include various levels of redundancy, concurrent maintainability, and backup components across the entire building infrastructure, including power, cooling, telecommunications, security, environmental controls, and power monitoring.