Report: Grommets Offer The Greatest Data Center Operational Expense Savings
The ASHRAE®-published report focused on Upsite Technologies’ KoldLok® Brush Grommets.
Upsite Technologies, Inc.has welcomed the results of a recent ASHRAE® -published report on brush grommet effectiveness in sealing cable openings in raised-floor data centers. The thirdparty, independent testing concluded that the performance of Upsite’s KoldLok® Brush Grommets seal best and save data center operators the most energy, enabling significant cost savings.
The full report titled, “Plenum-Leakage Bypass Airflow in Raised-Floor Data Centers” documents scientific test findings for five leading brush grommet brands. KoldLok’s Integral grommet was found to offer data center operators significant annual operational expense savings, approximately 50% greater than the next-closest tested competitors’ brush grommets1. Conservative projections based on the report’s findings show that data center operators can enjoy 10 year savings of approximately $960,000 if KoldLok grommets are installed in a 1MW data center.