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Data Centers: The Noise Pollution Problem

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers are highly efficient. Consolidation of computing resources into centralized locations typically comes with overall cost savings due to the economies of scale. Data centers offer improved energy efficiencies, better security, redundancy, and increased productivity. Data centers also consume

Data Centers: Climate Change Call to Action

By Dick Weisinger

The US Data Center construction market is growing. It’s being driven by increased demand for things like video streaming, IoT, and the availability of 5G networks. A report by analyst firm Arizton estimates that the new US data center construction

Data Centers: Hydrogen Fuel Cells Replace Diesel Generators

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers are engineered to run 24×7 with 99.999% uptime service level agreements. To maintain that level of operation, backup power is kept available that can kick in at a moment’s notice should a power outage occur. Backup power is

Data Centers: Making Them More Power Efficient

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers are notorious users of energy. US data centers use about 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, the equivalent of 34 coal-powered generators. The amount of energy consumed by data centers is expected to grow dramatically over the

Data Centers: Optimizing and Load Balancing Network Workflows

By Dick Weisinger

“In the near future, the number of data centers are expected to grow significantly in size and with size comes load balancing challenges,” said Ashish Modi, President of Honeywell Building Technologies Asia. As the popularity of a web site increases,