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White Paper: Focused Cooling Using Cold Aisle Containment

From Emerson Network Power / Liebert Power & Cooling

A number of options are available to facilities professionals looking to improve cooling
efficiency and reduce resources consumed by their data centers. Beyond implementing
basic measures such as sealing moisture out of the data center and improving air flow,
aisle containment to prevent the mixing of hot and cold air stands out as a method that
can dramatically reduce energy costs, minimize hot spots and improve the carbon footprint
of data centers.
While either hot aisle or cold aisle containment systems can be installed and are both capable
of increasing efficiency and cooling today's high heat data centers, meaningful differences
exist in how they function and are implemented. This paper reviews both approaches and
concludes that cold aisle containment is the superior solution. Cold aisle containment can
be used with or without conventional raised floor cooling. It is easily retrofitted into existing
raised floor data centers and works in tandem with the raised floor as well as with extreme
density cooling systems to produce highly efficient cooling solutions.

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