Data centers are the massive engines under the hood of the mobile internet economy. And it is no secret that they demand a lot of energy: with energy capacities ranging from 10MW to 100MW, they require up to 80,000 times more than what a typical US home needs.

And yet, you do not have to be a genius to figure out how the enormous energy bills could be reduced. The main energy gobblers are the CRACs, Computer Room Air Conditioners or the alternative, the CRAHs, the Computer Room Air Handlers. Most data centers still rely on some form of mechanical cooling. And to the outsider, it looks pretty wasteful, even stupid, that a data center is consuming energy to cool servers down while the outside air in a mild climate is more than cold enough most of the time (less than 20C/68 F).

Free cooling

There are quite a few data centers that have embraced "free cooling" totally, i.e. using the cold air outside. The data center of Microsoft in Dublin uses large air-side economizers and make good use of the lower temperature of the outside air.

Microsoft's data center in Dublin: free cooling with air economizers (source: Microsoft)

The air side economizers bring outside air into the building and distribute it via a series of dampers and fans. Hot air is simply flushed outside. As mechanical cooling is typically good for 40-50% of the traditional data center's energy consumption, it is clear that enormous energy savings can be possible with "free cooling".

Air economizers in the data center

This is easy to illustrate with the most important - although far from perfect - benchmark for data centers, PUE or Power Usage Effectiveness. PUE is simply the ratio of the total amount of energy consumed by the data center as a whole to the energy consumed by the IT equipment. Ideally it is 1, which means that all energy goes to the IT equipment. Most data centers that host third party IT equipment are in the range of 1.4 to 2. In other words, for each watt consumed by the servers/storage/network equipment, 0.4 to 1 Watt is necessary for cooling, ventilation, UPS, power conversion and so on.

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Reico Kitchen & Bath, the premier kitchen and bathroom distributor in the mid-Atlantic region, is pleased to announce the continued expansion of their kitchen and bath business in the past 12 months. Through a unique partnership with Flooring America, a new Reico kitchen and bathroom showroom is now open in Woodbridge, VA, providing Northern Virginia residents a better one-stop-shop convenience for their home design and remodeling needs.

We had a great opportunity to create a simpler, one-stop shopping environment for remodeling clients, stated Reico Kitchen & Bath President Richard Maresco. By combining our kitchen and bath expertise with an onsite flooring resource, we know we can make their lives much easier.

Whether building a high-end kitchen or just updating a rental unit, Reicos experienced and expert design team listens to clients dreams and makes them a reality. With over 1500 years of collective design experience, Reicos sales, support and operations teams help ensure every project is a dream come true.

The new Woodbridge kitchen and bathroom showroom is located directly next to the Flooring America store on 3041 Golansky Boulevard with a shared entrance for home owners looking for the best in design for the kitchen and bath as well as flooring.

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One of Los Angeles' longtime developers is betting big on the revival of Hollywood as he launches work on a $138-million speculative office development near Santa Monica Boulevard.

After dusting off plans for an office complex first conceived before the 2008 recession brought development to a halt, Jerry Snyder has begun construction of his 959 Seward project, even though he has no tenants lined up.

Snyder, who has been in the real estate business since 1949, thinks demand is strong enough among businesses in creative fields such as entertainment to justify the risk of building a campus-style complex catering primarily to them in a part of Hollywood known as the Media District.

It includes parts of the area between Santa Monica Boulevard and Melrose Avenue, from Vine Street west to La Brea Avenue, and it is home to a variety of theaters, entertainment companies, trendy restaurants and stores.

The project at Seward and Romaine streets envisions the environment of a movie studio or tech campus, with on-site restaurant, fitness center and screening room. There will also be outdoor recreation space that will include a volleyball court.

"We think that a lot of the showbiz folks and the gaming companies would like to have this kind of space," Snyder said.

There will be two glass-enclosed office buildings up to five stories tall in a design by architecture firm Ware Malcomb. The project is rising on a lot across Romaine Street from Hollywood Center Studios, which dates to 1919 and is one of the oldest movie studios in the world.

For much of the 1920s, the Harold Lloyd Corp. operated out of production offices on the lot. Lloyd was one of the biggest stars of the silent era, making more movies than Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Mogul Howard Hughes shot much of his 1930 war film "Hell's Angels" there.

The studio was home to many shows filmed during the early era of television and was once owned by director Francis Ford Coppola.

During the 1980s, however, the studio and many other Hollywood enterprises took a deep downward turn as much of the entertainment industry decamped for the Westside and the San Fernando Valley.

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