When Hong Kong-based startup Allied Control embarked on building the world’s largest 64 kW Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) system, it seemed that air cooling was the only practical way to deal with the issue of thermal management.

In the data center business, asset utilization is a key component to success.

As the light of Olympic flame was extinguished, closing the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, last February, the success of the power protection that kept the lights on — as well as the information technology (IT), communications, and broadcasts operations running 24x7 — is still a bright memory.

They say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence — or, as the case may be, on the other side of the data center aisle.

Banks and other financial institutions keep track of all their “cold cash” using data centers filled with racks of computer servers. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of that cold cash to prevent those racks from overheating.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in Livermore, CA is at the forefront of innovation, strengthening U.S. security through development and application of world-class science and technology.

The initial capital cost of a data center facility runs anywhere from $10 to $30 million per megawatt of IT capacity.

Cooling build-outs are one of the highest operational costs facing data storage facilities today, however executives at San Diego-based redIT have implemented a new cost-saving measure at their data centers.

Opportunities always present challenges, especially in the competitive data center industry.