Hi all,
We have a small server room 1.1M(W) x 1.8M(L) x 2.5M(H). The building was designed to be eco friendly, and as such, at the moment we have an extraction unit which directs the warm air downstairs in Winter and outside in Summer. Our only issue with this is it moves the smallest amount of air I have ever seen.
We have to keep the server room door open at all times and, approaching summer I am not sure that is even enough.
The obvious option is a Wall mounted split air con unit, the ducting etc will not be easy, but it is the only long term solution I can see. The architect (and I think some of the people I work with though) do not see this as a Eco friendly solution. The architect wants to put in a floor level duct to bring in cool outside air, though we would then be concerned about humidity. He believes with a small increase in draw from the ceiling extraction fan and this extra duct we will be able to keep the room cool.
We have four servers which according to Dell’s calculation are spitting out around 5000 BTU p/hr.
Does anyone know a calculation which will be able to show that the anmount of air required is far more eco unfriendly than the energy consumed by an AC unit?
P.S although I cannot prove it was heat, we recently had 2×48 Port GB switches die on the same day.
