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Category: Standards

Modernizing a Data Center for 2020

2020-01-29 GDCM Leave a comment

A path to modernize the infrastructure of a data center facility As 2020 begins, we have likely noticed that the…

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Posted in: Controls, Cooling, Costs, DCIM, Energy, Maintenance, Reliability, Standards Filed under: cost, maintenance, modern, operation, outage, risk, Standards

ASHRAE 90.4 Update

2019-10-04 GDCM Leave a comment

In most jurisdictions ASHRAE 90.1 is used as the building energy standard to be followed as part of their building…

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Posted in: Construction, Cooling, Energy, Location, Power, Standards Filed under: 90.4, ASHRAE, ISO, MLC, PUE, TC 9.9

NFPA 855 & Energy Storage

2019-08-28 GDCM Leave a comment

The rise of battery storage systems has increased significantly as solar photovoltaic and other systems seek a way to capture…

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Posted in: Batteries, Energy, Fire Protection, Power, Reliability, Standards Filed under: 855, batteries, fire protection, fire suppression, Li-Ion, lithium-ion, NFPA

15 Questions to Ask Your Designer

2019-05-22 GDCM Leave a comment

What does the designer see as the important issues or considerations of the project? What are the associated challenges? How…

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Posted in: Costs, Standards Filed under: challenges, design, fees, goals, questions

Learning the Trade

2019-02-11 GDCM Leave a comment

There is a lot of information to learn in the world and every day the data center industry seems to…

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Posted in: Construction, Standards Filed under: 7x24, AFCOM, BisNow, CapRate, IEEE, Learning, mentor

Energy Codes & Standards

2018-05-03 GDCM Leave a comment

In the United States there are two main documents that pertain to energy.  The main one is the model code…

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Posted in: Energy, Standards Filed under: 90.1, ANSI, ASHRAE, Codes, Energy, IECC, IESNA, Standards

Water Issues of the Southwest USA

2018-03-03 GDCM Leave a comment

It seems that there are reports about the dire water conditions of the Southwest United States at least once a…

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Posted in: Costs, Location, Standards, Water Filed under: Arizona, California, Greywater, Location, Nevada, Non-potable, Southwest, Water

CRAC vs. CRAH

2017-02-06 GDCM 1 Comment

I had this come up recently… what is a CRAC (pronounced ‘crack’)?  What is different from it than a CRAH…

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Posted in: Cooling, Standards Filed under: Cooling, CRAC, CRAH

Warmer Chilled Water on Existing Systems

2016-10-06 GDCM Leave a comment

So we are looking to save energy, and one of those ways is increasing the chilled water temperature.  But how…

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Posted in: CFD, Cooling, Costs, Maintenance, Reliability, Standards, Water Filed under: chilled water, Cooling, CRAH, Energy, temperature

Seismic Ratings

2016-08-06 GDCM Leave a comment

When do you need to have seismic rated equipment?  Should you have all equipment rated for an earthquake or just redundant…

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Posted in: Construction, Cooling, IT equipment, Location, Maintenance, Reliability, Standards Filed under: equipment, reliability, seismic, Standards, supports

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