Just like your home, data centers use air conditioners to cool down the room. However, unlike your home, the process is a bit trickier in a data center. For one thing, a technician must design the HVAC system in a data center with the server room as its focus. The technician must also consider things like how high the ceilings are and if there is a rise in the floor.
The little things can affect how well an HVAC system works, and if it doesn’t work well in a data center, then all that expensive and important equipment will eventually fail. It isn’t all about temperature, either. A data center’s HVAC system must also maintain adequate levels of moisture and dust – two more things that can ruin a data center’s day.
If you need a cooling system for your data center, our friendly and knowledgeable folks at Ambient Edge can help. Call us for a free consultation.
Maintaining an Adequate Comfort Level
Sure, you want to protect the equipment in your data center by keeping it cool at all times. Those machines can generate a respectable amount of heat. But what happens when the employees who work in that room are coming in from the cold during the winter? How do you keep them comfortable while protecting your equipment?
Unfortunately, folks who work in a data center can’t look forward to warming up when they go into work. However, the right HVAC system will keep climate control so that the temperature never changes much, if at all. So, it may take a while for the staff to warm up, but they certainly won’t freeze in air conditioning during those colder months either.
Some larger data centers use computer room air conditioners, or CRAC systems. These help keep employees cooler during the warmer months while maintaining a safe data center temperature.
Keeping Your Cool
While an increase in temperature may make an ordinary office uncomfortable, a “hot” data center is an emergency. The hotter it is and the more humidity in the air, the more likely the equipment will eventually malfunction or break down. Any company that depends on a data center to store its information cannot afford to let this happen.
Air conditioners are essential features in a data center. They keep the air dry and cool at all times. It can still be scary, though, to rely on an air conditioner to keep thousands of dollars of equipment safe. That’s why it’s important to sign up for routine preventive maintenance.
When we install HVAC systems for data centers, we follow the guidelines set by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Then, if you choose to sign a preventive maintenance contract with us, we come back each year to make sure everything is in working order. If we notice anything even slightly out of joint, we fix it so you don’t experience a major catastrophe later on.
At Ambient Edge, we take HVAC seriously – especially when you’re installing HVAC in a data center.
HVAC Systems as Filters
A data center depends on HVAC for more than just temperature. An HVAC system can also filter out particles from the air, which, after a while, can bring down even the toughest machines. Those who work in data centers take dust so seriously that they monitor who can come in and out of the data center and what they can bring in there with them.
This is not an overreaction. While tiny particles of dust may seem harmless, enough of it can build up over time and cause major problems with your equipment. In certain situations, if the air in the data center is dry enough, dust can even cause a fire. Who would have ever thought that dust could be a fire hazard?
With the right HVAC system and HEPA filters, you don’t have to worry as much about dust because your system will catch and pull out of the air even the smallest of particles. When you run a data center, you can never be too careful.
If You Need to Keep Your Data Center Cool, Ambient Edge Can Help You Do It!
A data center needs an air conditioner perhaps more than most other businesses out there. That’s because there’s no business quite like a data center. When you trust every aspect of your business to the servers that store your data, you want to know that you have an iron-clad HVAC system in place to protect that data. Ambient Edge has the experience necessary to know which HVAC system is best for your data center, and we follow all the appropriate guidelines when it comes to installing it.
While we have several years of experience at the commercial level, we also have plenty of experience helping at the residential level as well. No matter your HVAC needs, we can give you advice on the right system to buy, and then install it for you at an affordable price. You can reach us. Every minute you wait to install an HVAC system is another minute closer to your servers breaking down, so don’t wait – call us today!