Report: Growing Opportunity for Free Cooling in Data Center for Manufacturers
The market for free cooling technologies for data centers will grow much faster than those of other cooling methods over the next five years, according to a new report by IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc.) Free cooling technologies are forecast to grow at 16.3 percent in revenue terms over the next five years.
Any kind of compressor-less cooling is known as free cooling. These technologies are commonly known as economizer units, which use outside air to cool down a data center either directly or indirectly. Other types of technologies used are evaporative cooling and Kyoto wheels.