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HIGH PERFORMANCEDATA CENTERS
 A Design Guidelines Sourcebook 
 January 2006
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction........................................................................................21. Air Management............................................................................32. Air-side Economizer......................................................................113. Centralized Air Handling..............................................................174. Cooling Plant Optimization ..........................................................245. Direct Liquid Cooling....................................................................316. Free Cooling via Water Side Economizer........................................377. Humidification Controls Alternatives ..............................................428. Power Supplies ............................................................................479. Self Generation............................................................................5210. Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems ..........................................55
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INTRODUCTION
Data centers can consume 25 to 50 times as much electricity as standard office spaces. With such large power consumption, they are prime targets for energy efficient designmeasures that can save money and reduce electricity use. But the critical nature of data center loads elevates many design criteria -- chiefly reliability and high power density capacity – far above efficiency. Short design cycles often leave little time to fully assessefficient design opportunities or consider first cost versus life cycle cost issues. This can leadto designs that are simply scaled up versions of standard office space approaches or that re-usestrategies and specifications that worked “good enough” in the past without regard for energy  performance. The Data Center Design Gudelines have been created to provide viable alterna-tives to inefficient building practices.Based upon benchmark measurements of operating data centers and input from practicingdesigners and operators, the Design Guidelines are intended to provide a set of efficientbaseline design approaches for data center systems. In many cases, the Design Guidelinescan also be used to identify cost-effective saving opportunities in operating facilities. No designguide can offer ‘the one correct way’ to design a data center, but the Design Guidelines offer efficient design suggestions that provide efficiency benefits in a wide variety of data center design situations. In some areas, promising technologies are also identified for possible future design consideration.Data center design is a relatively new field that houses a dynamic and evolving technology.The most efficient and effective data center designs use relatively new design fundamentalsto create the required high energy density, high reliability environment. The followingBest Practices capture many of the new ‘standard’ approaches used as a starting pointby successful and efficient data centers.
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