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Data Centre Cooling with Cold Aisle Containment

Most people believe that the only way to guarantee data centre cooling is by pumping more and more air conditioners into your server centre – one for every new server rack. That’s not actually the case. You can keep a data centre at an even cool temperature without a single air conditioning unit in the same place as the servers – by using a cold aisle containment room.

Basically a room within a room, a cold aisle containment data centre is perched on a raised floor that has cold air passing under it. The air cools the floor, which makes the interior of the cold aisle containment – hence the name – the perfect data centre cooling option. All the heat goes out the back of the servers, effectively out of the room within a room – and at that point is air conditioned before passing under the floor.