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Maximizing Use Of Air-Side Economization, Direct And Indirect Evaporative Cooling For Energy Efficient Data Centers, Betsegaw Kebede Gebrehiwot

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations

Data centers house information technology (IT) equipment such as servers and network switches which are vital for our networked modern society by providing digital data storage, data processing and connectivity. Data centers house few hundreds to tens of thousands of IT equipment that consume few kilowatt-hours to multi-megawatt-hours of electrical energy that gets dissipated as heat. IT equipment need to be properly cooled so that they operate reliably for their expected lifetime. For air cooled IT equipment, manufacturers provide heat sinks, cold plates, fans, et cetera to remove heat from the vicinity of heat dissipating components and data centers need …