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Reducing Data Center Cost with an Air Economizer

With data center power consumption costs rising, Intel was looking for a way to support the growth in computing capacity in a way that would minimize costs. To challenge industry assumptions regarding data center cooling, Intel IT conducted this proof of concept test that used an air economizer to cool production servers with 100 percent outside air at temperatures of up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Read about the results of this 10 month study.

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4 Comments

  1. Syed Arif Ali
    Posted August 20, 2008 at 11:08 pm | Permalink

    A wondeful effort

  2. Dave St George
    Posted August 26, 2008 at 8:17 am | Permalink

    Don and Intel DC Team,
    Congrats on your great success with the air side economizer PoC. Aside from it providing potential great cost reduction in DC OPs , you have more importantly shown another way for us all to reduce our carbon footprint and make for a more “green ” enviroment

    great job!!

  3. Rob Martin
    Posted August 26, 2008 at 9:58 am | Permalink

    Very interesting results. I wonder if with improved filtering (to reduce the dust buildup) if you would get better “buy in” while not significantly increasing costs.

  4. Mitch Kumar
    Posted September 9, 2008 at 9:04 am | Permalink

    Great results with the PoC and viability of using air side economizers in dry places.

    The graph only shows Jan-May variations in Temperature & humidity, while this study was done over 10 months. Wondering if consistent high temps in June/July/August reveal any trends!

    Thanks for sharing the results, great work!!

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  1. By Blowtorch » Can you help a Datacenter out? on September 22, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    [...] Intel had their idea for cooling the data center directly with outside air. [...]

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