[109607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Tue Dec 2 16:13:48 2008
In-Reply-To: <200812022044.mB2KiAcH004040@kw.retro.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:12:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@netcases.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
George William Herbert wrote:
>
> Johnny writes:
>>This discussion about plants, waterfalls and humidity is getting more
>>and more off-tropic...
>
> Humidity is not off topic for a general or specific datacenter
> conversation - it's a fairly routine issue in facilities.
>
> NANOG isn't facilities focused but I think that it comes up
> enough (we're not hosting routers in closets anymore) that it's
> legit for some discussion.
>
> The plants and waterfalls is probably drifting a bit far afield,
> though...
>
Perhaps not as far as one might think. I once had to work with a large
data center, which was having a huge condensation and eventual corrosion
problem on one side of the room. No one had made the connection that it
was a shared wall with the main building atrium, which had an indoor
waterfall that made quite an evaporative cooler.
Extra wall insulation solved the problem.
