By Wayne Rose

Global Marketing Manager at Armstrong Fluid Technology

In recent years datacenters have been faced with two conflicting priorities. The requirement for cooling continues to increase, driving up energy consumption, but there is also a growing need to reduce carbon footprint.

According to the National Resources Defense Council, datacenter energy consumption in the US is forecast to to reach 140 billion kWh by 2020, making the datacenter industry the largest user of energy in the US.

As seen on oilandgas360 : November 6, 2015

TORONTO, Nov. 6, 2015 /CNW/ - Last night, participants in CivicAction's smart energy office challenge took sustainability to new heights, celebrating a drop of close to 193 million ekWh or 12.1 per cent in collective energy use over four years, charging past the program's four-year target of 10 per cent. That's equivalent to taking more than 4,200 cars off the road and putting $13.7 millionback into office landlords' and tenants' pockets.

By Dominic Cutts

Director – System Solutions at Armstrong Fluid Technology

The HVAC industry is awash with acronyms but, if you are designing, installing or maintaining systems for datacenters, then the acronym that really matters is PUE. The PUE™ (Power usage effectiveness) metric provides a universal benchmark against which the environmental performance of every datacenter can be measured. It has been developed by The Green Grid Association (a non-profit, open industry consortium of end users, policy makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies) and carries significant weight within the datacenter community. Whilst the guidelines issued by Green Grid and others (such as the EU Code of Conduct on Datacenters' Energy Efficiency) are currently voluntary rather than mandatory, these initiatives for accreditation and benchmarking of environmental performance provide powerful commercial advantages for those datacenter operators able to differentiate themselves through investment in energy efficiency.

As seen on facilitiesnet.com: November 2, 2015

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Eco*Pulse combines industry-leading diagnostic technology with expert review to help keep central cooling systems operating at optimal performance. Eco*Pulse will be offered as a subscription-based service with Armstrong’s Integrated Plant Controller and OptiVisor products.

By Dominic Cutts

Director – System Solutions, Armstrong Fluid Technology

Generating heat is an unavoidable outcome of electrical resistance within IT processors and, as IT processors become ever more powerful, the demand for cooling is rising. Chilled water cooling systems have a crucial role to play in dissipating heat to ensure server reliability and prevent downtime, but there is an environmental price to be paid. Overall energy demand of datacenters is escalating between 5% and 10% each year, and are responsible for 3% of the total electrical energy consumption in the UK. As a result, the environmental impact of datacenters has come under international scrutiny, with a number of organizations developing guidelines and regulatory frameworks for datacenter operation.

As seen on buffalo.edu : October 8, 2015

UB solar home in California: Photos, b-roll will be available of Solar Decathlon contest

Joshua Dillin (left) and Joe Tuberdyck of the University at Buffalo work on their ramp railing on Day 9 of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon at the Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. (Credit: Thomas Kelsey/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon)

As seen on prnewswire.sys-con.com : October 8, 2015

CUI Global Announces Conceptual Design Win for its New IRIS "Lite" Technology and Additional Purchase Orders for its IRIS RTU Technology

As seen on www.csemag.com : September 17, 2015

2015 Product of the Year winners

Consulting-Specifying Engineer readers have cast their votes for the 2015 Product of the Year; read about the winners.

Winners of the 11th annual Consulting-Specifying Engineer Product of the Year awards included mobile applications that allow engineers to perform tasks wirelessly, a magnetic bearing water-cooled chiller, and an all-in-one variable frequency drive that combines induction and permanent magnet motors. 

As seen in achrnews.com:  September 7, 2015

Planet Proposition initiative enjoys highly successful second year

TORONTO — Armstrong Fluid Technology’s sustainability initiative — Planet Proposition — is celebrating a highly successful second year with significant energy savings achieved via its HVAC solutions, solid progress towards its key operational environmental goals, and new community projects worldwide.

As seen on modbs.co.uk : 03 September, 2015

Data centres use lots of energy, including energy to cool the IT equipment. Not only must the building-services system be efficient but they also need to meet the special requirements of data centres, as Dominic Cutts of Armstrong Fluid Technology explains.

In critical cooling applications for data centres and other IT intensive spaces, HVAC system design has a fundamental impact on operational effectiveness and commercial success of the facility. Increasing use of advanced IT technologies, such as blade servers and virtualisation, is escalating the overall energy demand of data centres by 5 to 10% a year, and data centres are thought to be responsible for 3% of the electrical energy consumption of the UK.