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The
case studies below represent
a small sampling of data center
design information that is available
on-line. Please
click on the links below to find
out what others are saying about
RAF data center environments.
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Raised Floor
Office Space for Rackspace
Rackspace
Managed Hosting has some interesting
designs for its new headquarters facility,
which will be housed in a former shopping
mall in San Antonio. Computerworld has
some details of the company's plans
for the retrofit of the former Windsor
Park Mall, which will require $100
million in investment as the managed
hosting company expands to add 4,000
employees. Rackspace is focusing
on energy efficiency in its design,
which includes an unusual wrinkle
- both the office space and data
center space will feature raised
floors. |
What Works
to Cut Data Center Energy Usage
The
newest green data centres share many
features: They're built using locally
supplied and recycled materials;
waste is minimized during construction;
lots of windows provide extensive
natural lighting; and fluorescent
lighting with dimmers is used throughout. These
buildings have occupancy sensors
so that lights and temperature automatically
adjust when no one is in the room.
Another common feature is raised
flooring with under-floor heating
and cooling used throughout the buildings,
not just in the computer rooms. |
Monsanto
Company Completes $21 Million Data Center
Monsanto Company
has announced it has completed construction
of a new data center on the west side
of its World Headquarters campus in Creve
Coeur, Mo.... Mr. Dunn noted that the
design ratio of power to cooling has
historically been 1:1, however the impact
of virtualization, consolidation and
high density has “the
future of the data center requires more power then cooling at a 1: 1.3 to 1:
1.5 ratio with the advent of new self cooled servers.” ...Some
particulars about the new facility:
• 120 watts/sf
10,000 raised floor! |
Improved
Airflow Cools Off Overheated Data Center
When lighting manufacturer
Osram Sylvania decided to build a backup
data center, they moved in to the available
floor space at the
company's Manchester, N.H. production
facility -- upstairs from a loading dock. |
San
Francisco Data Center Builds on Solid Foundation
365 Main has 90,000
square feet of rentable raised floor space.
The floor is 24-inches high and manufactured
by Jessup, Md.-based Tate Access Floors.
It features concrete cores and seismic pedestals
with a structural capacity of 250 pounds
per square foot. |
More
Perforated Tiles Equal Better Data Center
Cooling
When you pump cold air
into a raised floor, you expect it will all
arrive at its destination -- the server racks.
But like a disobedient child, some of the
cold air is probably sneaking off where it
shouldn't, and it's costing you money. A
new study from Innovative Research Inc.,
a Plymouth, Minn.-based computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) company, said a lot of that
has to do with your perforated tiles; more
specifically, how many of them you have. |
Smart
Companies Take The LEED for Energy Efficiency
365 Main, a data center
builder and operator whose customers include
Craigslist and Red Envelope, recently announced
plans to implement the U.S. Green Building
Council’s Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
standards to all of its future data centers. |
365
Main
365 Main began with
a single data center based in San Francisco,
CA., and now operates six facilities nationwide
with a seventh in development.
Each 365 Main data center features 24/7/365
power, cooling, connectivity and security
capabilities to ensure mission-critical operations
and business continuity for tenants. |
EDS
Announces Plans to Expand Data Center in Tulsa
EDS, a leading global
technology services provider, today announced
plans to expand its Service Management Center
in Tulsa, Okla. The expansion will more than
double the square footage of the data center
to 440,000 square feet... The current
facility, one of the nation's premier data
centers, has 76,000 square feet of raised
floor space, and the expansion will bring
the square footage up to approximately 156,000
square feet. |
Microsoft
Takes Rent-To-Own Route to Add Data Centers
Microsoft currently
leases the two facilities under a collocation
agreement with Savvis that was scheduled
to expire in 2010. The software vendor is
the sole user of the data centers, which
together have about 250,000 square feet of
raised-floor space, according to Savvis. |
St.
Louis Gets a Few New Data Centers
Over Memorial Day weekend,
the government organization, known as REJIS,
moved its systems and other I.T. equipment
out of a 30-year-old data center that was
located in the basement of its headquarters. But the new facility
has twice as much floor space and offers improved
cooling capabilities, said Eric Gorham, the
organization's director of I.T. In the old
building, "we had 12-inch raised floors
that were getting crowded and reducing our
airflow," he said. "The new data
center has 24-inch floors, so we don't have
to worry about hot spots anymore." |
IBM
to Build $86 Million Energy Efficient Data
Center in Boulder as Part of Project Big Green
IBM announced today
an $86 million data center expansion...IBM
will use state-of-the-art technology to build
a "green data center"
to help IBM and its clients reduce energy
costs. With the addition, the IBM
Boulder location will expand its hardened
raised floor operations from approximately
225,000 square feet to more than 300,000
square feet, making it one of the largest
IBM data centers in the world.
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