Equinix to cut costs by turning up temps at datacenters

In the hopes of cutting its power bills, Equinix says it's turning the thermostat up in its datacenters.

The colocation provider expects to increase the operating temperature of its facilities to a rather balmy 27C, that's about 80F in freedom units, to align with American Society of Heat, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers standards. As it stands, Equinix says cooling accounts for about 25 percent of its total energy usage globally. That's already better than most. As we're previously, 30-40 percent of a datacenter's energy consumption can be attributed to thermal management systems like air conditioners.

"Once rolled out across our current global datacenter footprint, we anticipate energy efficiency improvements of as much as 10 percent in various locations," Raouf Abdel, EVP of global operations at Equinix, said in aIn addition to higher ambient temperatures, Equinix also plans to make greater use of outside air to cool its datacenters, a technique sometimes referred to as".

Actual progress toward this goal will be measured in power usage effectiveness . The industry standard metric measures how efficient a datacenter is by comparing the amount of power used by compute, storage, or networking equipment against total utilization. The closer the PUE is to 1.0, the more efficient the facility.

MTBF will drop on equipment but most equipment doesn’t go the distance anyway before it’s tech obsolete, I’ve seen equipment rooms and DC’s hit 47°C due to aircon issues but the equipment just carried on, humans weren’t allowed in the DC until the AC came back online

“However, Equinix won't be putting these changes into effect overnight…they will start turning up the temperature only after it's finished defining a 'multi-year global roadmap' on how to do it.” Translation: We need to figure out legally how much of a clusterfuc* this will be.

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