Something worth a thought is that as much as devices don't like being too hot they also don't like to have their temperature change too quickly. Parts can expand/shrink variably depending on their composition.
A rule of thumb is a few degrees per hour change but YMMV, depends on the equipment. Sometimes manufacturer's specs include this. Throwing open the windows on a winter day to try to rapidly bring the room down to a "normal" temperature may do more harm than good. It might be worthwhile figuring out what is reasonable in advance with buy-in rather than in a panic because, from personal experience, someone will be screaming in your ear JUST OPEN ALL THE WINDOWS WHADDYA STUPID? On January 15, 2024 at 09:23 [email protected] (Clayton Zekelman) wrote: > > > > At 09:08 AM 2024-01-15, Mike Hammett wrote: > >Let's say that hypothetically, a datacenter you're in had a cooling > >failure and escalated to an average of 120 degrees before > >mitigations started having an effect. What are normal QA procedures > >on your behalf? What is the facility likely to be doing? > >What should be expected in the aftermath? > > One would hope they would have had disaster recovery plans to bring > in outside cold air, and have executed on it quickly, rather than > hoping the chillers got repaired. > > All our owned facilities have large outside air intakes, automatic > dampers and air mixing chambers in case of mechanical cooling > failure, because cooling systems are often not designed to run well > in extreme cold. All of these can be manually run incase of controls > failure, but people tell me I'm a little obsessive over backup plans > for backup plans. > > You will start to see premature failure of equipment over the coming > weeks/months/years. > > Coincidentally, we have some gear in a data centre in the Chicago > area that is experiencing that sort of issue right now... :-( > > > -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | [email protected] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
