A DAY in the LIFE of the DATA CENTRE | INSIDE a DATA CENTRE COOLING SYSTEM!

Join our Head of Infrastructure, Pav, for a look around our evaporative cooling system, powering one of our data floors at our Kent data centre - making us one of the 'greenest' data centres in the UK!

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[scottscott]

Excellent. It's always great to see the engine room of the data centre. Hot and cold aisles are often abstract terms with little meaning until now we can see the mechanism by which it operates. Great explanation. Resilience is the key term here.

[Plsm]

Would be nice if you guys can make a video on how to build a server rack from scratch.

Thanks for all these great videos !!!

[venkatx]

Thanks for the Tour Mate! Nice and Impressive.

[leifdux]

2:16 Thought it was some chocolates when you're hungry in the data center.

[serch]

Very good information thanks for sharing hope to see more content.

[ctwmerlin]

Love your videos. This was particulary interesting as I have wondered about server farm cooling. A follow up video on this one would be really interesting where you go through the next part of the cooling, how the air flows and is distributed in the cells themselves and around the servers.

[jubairtechie]

Interesting update more videos on data centres

[alphaprot]

I've learned a lot about evaporative cooling in your facilities and how efficient it is - but there weren't any numbers. Could you provide an percentage for total efficiency/compared to other systems?
Also, thanks for the illustrations of the airflow, those helped me to further understand the matter!

[cctrollz]

TIL data centers use glorified swamp coolers.

[TheFlatronify]

Very interesting. In addition to @Scania_V8_Rat comment I'd like to know how you achieve the target humidity for the air going into the racks? Because I can only imagine that the incoming (cooled) air is pretty humid due to the water vapor that is being used. How is the humidity extracted before going to the electrical equipment which often has humidity requirements of << 80% RH.


Thanks for these videos, they are really interesting!

[rohanmars]

As, I'm a network engineer student...I'm very Interested to see it

[cariocadenyc]

Cool. What manufacturer do you have for the BMS?

[getlst]

It's quite shocking just how fast a data centre can heat up if the air conditioning fails...

[walkinwithjesus]

You could be a bit greener if You used your own ear protection instead of using disposable ear plugs.

[IntenseVLT]

So many arrows, yet I have so little understanding of how this actually works

[Sky_Nett]

Sooo there is no cameras in that air industry room? Now i see how an experienced hacker can breach into your facility - trough roof, cut the hatch, trough the ducts...BAM! He is inside air control room. From there he can sabotage air ventilation system by making a smaalll explosion, or he can follow the air stream to get into actual server room! SCHWOOSH! Now he is in and he is ready to steal hard drive disk with my naked photos i used to send to my girlfriend!!! And leave the way he came in.

All i wanted to say - please don't mark this hard drive disk i dare you, i double dare you ;(

[tonyb]

It's quite amusing. For people who have no idea how all this stuff works, these videos seem amazing. For people who do know what they're talking about and watching, these guys look like a bunch of cowboys. Sure, it's a 'plant room', and they're using fresh-air cooling - that certainly does not make this one of the 'greenest' data centers in the country! At least they have a decent air re-cycling system - it actually looks like someone thought that through. I can pretty much guarantee he was just wearing the hard hat and ear protectors for the video - under normal circumstances, they wouldn't even think of bothering.