Sun using economizers..

Down the street from us, it looks like they realized the cost savings as we have.
http://tinyurl.com/b5ztpw

Pics

Pics of our new build out can be found here:
http://redrocksdatacenter.com/gallery/v/tierra/

Next project...

We've been chosen by Tierra Geophysical to provide a home to their new Dell cluster. This cluster contains 128 "nodes" which are actually 1U Dell servers. To cool this extreme amount of heat, we've decided to think outside the box much like we did with our Trane economizer.

The plan is to "contain" the over 38,000watts of heat being produced by all of these 1U servers and exhaust it outside. You might ask, well, great idea...but where will you get the make up air to supply to the servers..???? We thought you might ask that..

Below is the initial design of this room. As you can see, 3 existing A/C units will supply the air flow needed for this cluster. These units were already equipped with air-side economizers which will use outside air 100% of the year. The reason for this is because it will be easier to cool outside air than very hot server air which is usually greater than 105 degrees.

Since our new customer is going to be paying their own power bills, we estimate that using a 100% economizer approach will save them $900+ a month.




Once the project is completed, we'll post pictures of the results.