Cooling

What’s the temperature we deliver to your IT? That’s easy. It’s between 18˚C and 22˚C – well within the recommended guidelines for IT equipment established by the well respected ASHRAE organisation.

24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, IFL supply optimal air conditioning to our data centres using intelligent, localised cooling methodologies. Our under-floor systems distribute and manage cooling and by strategic placement of racks and cooling units we reduce the impact of temperature hotspots.

Our racks always face one another, face to face, back to back. This alternating arrangement of warm and cold corridors helps keep the temperature down by ensuring that the warm back of a system is never venting hot air towards the cold front of another server. Air drawn in from cold air vents in the floor in front of systems exits through the warmer rear corridor, and it’s then drawn back into our air conditioning system for cooling. In higher density areas of the data centre we use aisle containment systems to ensure that warm and cold air don’t mix, improving performance and optimising efficiency.

That’s how we know it’s always between 18˚C and 22˚C.