Estimating Server Room Cooling Requirements: A Fine Balance

Author(s): Melanie Davy

Whether the organization is building a new server room or refreshing its existing facility, determining current and future cooling requirements is important to ensure that an adequately-sized device and enough cooling are included in the budgeting process.

This research note provides a method for:

  • Understanding current server room cooling requirements.
  • Estimating future server room cooling requirements.
  • Understanding other variables that can contribute heat in the server room.
  • Estimating the size of cooling device(s) required in the server room.

Use Info-Tech's cooling requirements best practices and tool to collect the necessary information and estimate the organization's server room cooling requirements.


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