I’m not sure you can answer the question without knowing the max heat load per cabinet and how you manage airflow in the cabinets.
AFAIK it used to be standard practice to keep data centers as cold as possible without requiring people to wear parkas, but energy efficiency is a consideration now. From: That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Data center temperatures apparently 72 is the the ideal for our noc, i set our thermostat to 60 and it always gets turned back to 72, so i just say fuck it, I wanted new gear in the racks anyway On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Larry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: On Wed May 11 2016 15:37, Josh Luthman wrote: > Just curious what the ideal temp is for a data center. Our really nice > building that Sprint ditched ranges from 60 to 90F (on a site monitor). I try to keep my NOC room at about 62F, that puts many of the CPU's at 83 to 90F. Many of the bigger places I visit will generally be 55 to 60F. Loads of computers (data center type) are primarily groupings of little heaters... -- Larry Smith [email protected] -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
