Data centers with air cooled Computer Room AC (CRAC) units contain large amounts of refrigerant within the cooling systems. Maintenance costs for data center CRAC units are typically the highest costs incurred by data center managers. For facilities using R-22, these costs are increasing exponentially and will continue to rise until R-22 is phased out on January…
Maintaining a reliable and safe data center environment is a daunting task. Maintenance contracts provide on-going checks to confirm support equipment is in good operating condition and will perform when needed. A data center’s clean agent fire protection is one of these support systems and is comprised of two components. The primary component is the clean…
Unlike your typical office environments, Data Centers are unique facilities. However, contractors and subcontractors are routinely placed inside critical environments with minimal or no prior data center experience. Inexperienced contractors elevate the potential of an accident by “human error”; a leading cause for loss of critical bus. With the elevated potential for human error, Contractors should be…
With equipment and applications that carry significant importance, it is highly recommended to find designers and contractors who have prior installation experience with Liebert High Density XD™ system within a data center environment. The XD™ system is just one component of the entire data center environmental support system and proper integration into the overall room…
