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RE: Even the New York Times withholds the address

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Nov 19 17:02:50 2002

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:56:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIMEAFBIAB.deepak@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Deepak Jain wrote:

> Some facilities (Terremark comes to mind) offer chilled water from the local
> power company so you don't need to have your own chillers. What is the fault
> tolerance requirement for a power-company chiller plant though?

We use chilled water (4-8 C) with regular tap water as a backup (separate
system). We have a water tower nearby, they say they can give us very high
probability that any one of these two will provide cooling at any given
time. As far as I know none of them have failed during the past two years
of operation.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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