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Sealing Cable Openings: How Grommet Choice Impacts the Bottom Line
Today it’s no secret that unsealed cable cutouts in raised-floor data centers can cause a host of problems in the data center. What seems like a small detail can end up snowballing into bigger issues as the cooling and airflow management of the entire data center is...
Data Center Cooling Trends for 2025
Data center cooling has never been so cool (pun intended). Those developing chips, designing data centers, and strategizing the AI revolution have realized that cooling efficiency and effectiveness is the key to lowering power demands. Hence, this is a vibrant area of...
Bypass Airflow: Not as Simple as You May Think
Increasing density and the pressure to save money in the data center are driving awareness towards the importance of improving airflow management. One of the most fundamental aspects of airflow management is bypass airflow. While airflow management best practices are...
Energy Industry Gets Behind the Data Center Power Shortage
Two years ago, the worlds of energy generation and data centers were blissfully separate, for the most part. They existed mostly within their own spheres. Data center managers cared about power inside the data center. They had little interest in how it got there....
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[VIDEO] How Fan Affinity Laws Impact Fan Energy Savings
As we’ve previously discussed, cooling optimization is the process of making adjustments to the cooling system controls (such as raising temperature set points or reducing fan speeds). Therefore, the fan affinity laws (also simply referred to as “fan laws”) associated...