Comments on: A 12-Foot Raised Floor?

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[...] early in 2009, and the technology involved already was making news. DataCenter Knowledge had an article on it; ComputerWorld’s Patrick Thibodeau also had a very nice in-depth article on the planned [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:04:51 +0000

You’d obviously only do this if you were converting an existing space. Commercial realestate is pretty cheap in London right now, it’s probably not costing a whole lot to waste the floor.

An interesting idea for the slightly more twisted individuals is to use the sales department’s office space as the plenum.

By: Dallas Kincaid

Dallas Kincaid — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:53:26 +0000

Wow, it will be lots of fun to work on your servers there….will they provide pocket fans for you to use?

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:53:46 +0000

Yeap, sounds just like the Intel “engineering” data center in Portland, OR. Toured that back in Oct 2007 myself. Even down to the “pod” architecture sounds the same. An interesting design for sure, nothing like walking through the “fan room” behind the “chill wall”.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:34:08 +0000

I haven’t watched the video, but I’m curious of the costs associated with using an entire floor as a plenum. At a very basic level, the more airflow required, the bigger the raised floor has to be. It’d be interesting to see a cost comparision between using/building a 12 ft raised floor vs. using close-coupled cooling on slab (like Sun and others) in a single floor.

But, nonetheless, kudos to EDS and others for implementing a different and efficient design.

By: Nik Simpson

Nik Simpson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:02:32 +0000

This sounds a lot like the Intel data center I toured in Portland, Or.