Over the last several years, data center owners across the globe have demonstrated very responsible community awareness by implementing effective energy efficient “designs” in their critical facilities, often compromising capital and schedule objectives and assuming added risk to do so. Even after all of this, the data center industry remains under growing pressure to further reduce power consumption and better prepare for the rapid projected growth rates in computing demand.
Substantial sources of additional energy savings lie beyond data center design and in the effective management of the way we “operate” our data center facilities. According to Troy Miller of Glenmount Global Solution, “Effective energy management is easily found through the implementation of an automated PLC-based controls platform and proven controls algorithms for data center HVAC equipment operations.”