Technology

Over the years there has been a rapid increase in large stand-alone data centres housing computer systems, hosting cloud computing servers and supporting telecommunications equipment. These are crucial for every company for IT operations around the world.

Servers certainly have some ventilation and self-cooling capabilities, but we would hardly call them warm-blooded. Every 1 degree Fahrenheit increase in ambient temperature yields a 1 degree F increase for the average CPU. In other words, there’s a clear correlation between data center temperature and rack equipment temperature. When, exactly, does this become a problem? It