Articles:

The master planning approach described in this article can be seen as the data-gathering and organising part of digital master planning – the preparatory work which could lead, in this case, to a digital configurator for pharmaceutical facilities..

Owners who are spending billions of dollars.. “What owner in their right mind is going to spend money and not get consistency of any data,” she says, “to learn from, reuse and evolve, to be more operationally efficient?How could that be acceptable?”.

“We find the same thing”, says Jaimie Johnston.“It's serial custo.mers who are dissatisfied with either the quality they're getting or the value they're getting.”.

Johnston says that the biggest value driver of them all is climate change and carbon.He agrees that there’s a “dawning recognition” that we don’t have a choice.

However, these days, the data is starting to allow us to do these things, making this particular moment in industry history different from the ones that have come before.. “I think that's why it might stick this time,” he says.

“But if it doesn't stick this time, we've got enormous problems.”.The larger the temperature difference, the harder the mechanical cooling system must work.

Compared to free cooling, mechanical cooling requires substantial electrical input, which ultimately contributes to more heat being rejected.This can further increase water consumption if the heat rejection plant utilises adiabatic cooling.. Reducing the mechanical cooling demand.

The obvious, although usually impractical, way would be to locate the data centre in a colder climate where the average temperature is lower, allowing for free cooling to operate for longer and reducing the mechanical cooling hours operated.This won't be practical for most data centre operators due to cost, land, power and connectivity availability.. A more practical way to reduce the mechanical cooling demand is by increasing the air/water temperature supplied to the data hall.