Ben Steinberg is a Systems Engineer at APC-MGE Critical Power and Cooling Services. He is a registered professional engineer and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Once a data center is designed and built, how does the organization know if the on-site cooling infrastructure will adequately support the power-hungry IT equipment? No amount of floor plan or specification analysis will provide a definitive answer to this question, especially for traditional data center designs. Too many systems are interacting and are influencing each other’s performance.