Challenge:

A national healthcare provider wanted to drastically reduce the PUE in their Northern California data center in order to qualify for an energy savings rebate and to save thousands in monthly energy costs. This organization has a national marketing campaign regarding going paperless and reducing their carbon footprint; while saving money was a key benefit, following the company’s “green” edict to be more energy efficient was the end goal.

Solution:

The client asked Instor to help with a large cold aisle containment project in their Northern California data center.
Instor contained 22 cold aisle containment pods with solid polycarbonate sliding doors at the front of each Because this location was a legacy data center, not all equipment was flush, and there were many offset rows. We custom engineered 80-inch steel gap panels to adjust for row discrepancies.

The rear of each aisle was contained with clear seiden crystal class A1 fire rated vinyl curtains due to design restraints of the RPP power system access. To complete the cold aisle containment, we sealed the top of the pods with Ceilume Environmental Institute Certified ceiling tiles supported by standard T-Bar ceiling grid.

Benefits:

The client is currently gathering their baseline power consumption figures to submit to their Utility Provider.