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Cold aisle Containment (CAC) is a containment system that builds on conventional hot and cold aisles retaining cold air at the front of the rack.
This ensures an even distribution of temperature at both the top and bottom of each rack front which is the point of ingress for air entering colocated servers.
Within the cold aisles, blanking plates are clipped into each rack where equipment is not located and also to the bottom of the rack. This prevents cold air from leaking through to the warm air and vice versa. Plastic curtains are installed from the top of the rack to the finished ceiling and at either end of the cold aisle rows. This creates a sealed cold corridor preventing cold air from escaping and mixing with hot air unless it is sucked through the server and into the warm aisle. This also prevents warm air re-circulating back into the cold aisles and thus having a negative effect.
The net result of CAC is that data centre areas outside of cold aisles can be run at higher temperatures without affecting the temperature of air entering colocated servers. The data centre’s Air Handling Units (AHU) which drive cold air into the floor void, can be run at a higher set point and thus require less electricity to maintain the cold aisles at their average temperature of 22 degrees C.
In conjunction with CAC, all Synergy House’s Air Handling Units have been fitted with inverter units. Inverters enable the AHU’s to run at 50% reduced power helping to reduce the total electricity utilisation for Synergy House’s cooling solution.
These results re-enforce UK Grid’s strategy to make Synergy House’s cooling system more efficient, thus resulting in a large decrease in power utilisation required for cooling and thus helping to reduce its carbon footprint.
If you are interested in colocating with The UK Grid Network LTD or require further information on colocation or our other
offerings, please contact our team on
+44(0)845 260 4743.
