Comments on: How Much Time, Once the Cooling Fails? http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/02/08/how-much-time-once-the-cooling-fails/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Data Center Aficionado http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/02/08/how-much-time-once-the-cooling-fails/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Data Center Aficionado Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:12:15 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/02/08/how-much-time-once-the-cooling-fails/#comment-260 Does anyone know how many watts/sqft this Hosting365 facility was designed for? Recent conventional wisdom is to provide uninterruptible cooling (pumps/fans on UPS, chilled water storage for ride-through) in facilities designed upwards of ~180w/sqft. It would be interesting for the industry to get some real-world knowledge from this unfortunate event - especially if this occured at a density of around 100w/sqft which is pretty common in Dublin. Kudos to the facility operations team on their speed and obvious competence to resolve this issue in under 20 minutes. Does anyone know how many watts/sqft this Hosting365 facility was designed for? Recent conventional wisdom is to provide uninterruptible cooling (pumps/fans on UPS, chilled water storage for ride-through) in facilities designed upwards of ~180w/sqft. It would be interesting for the industry to get some real-world knowledge from this unfortunate event – especially if this occured at a density of around 100w/sqft which is pretty common in Dublin.

Kudos to the facility operations team on their speed and obvious competence to resolve this issue in under 20 minutes.

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