From The Register, June 12:
Turning up the heat can turn down cooling bills, even as 30°C and 84 percent humidity prevail
Singapore's government last week released a standard for operating datacenters in tropical conditions.
The island nation is nearly always sticky, with daily temperatures and humidity averaging 30°C and 84 percentthroughout the year. It also houses 60 percent of the region's datacenters, so local authorities have experience keeping the facilities working in the heat.
According to Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the big challenge tropical datacenters operators face is high levels of energy required to operate cooling systems.
"Apart from devising a cooling strategy optimized for the typical temperature and relative humidity ranges found in the tropics, this [sustainability standard] SS also informs datacenter operators on ways to measure and calculate the total cost of operations under these conditions, to justify their use and get buy-in from datacenter customers on the benefits of tropical datacenters,” reads the description of the standard, which can be downloaded for a little over $30 if you're keen.....
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It's all about cooling those computers....
