[53645] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Even the New York Times withholds the address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Nov 19 17:14:13 2002
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From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:10:21 -0500
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Water towers/tap water depend entirely on the amount of heat you are trying
to lose divided by the amount of space you have to lose it in. I am sure
some colos can just open the windows (if they have any) and run some fans.
:)
DJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Mikael Abrahamsson
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:56 PM
> To: Deepak Jain
> Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Even the New York Times withholds the address
>
>
>
> 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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