First announced in June, the Microsoft data generation 3 mega center officially opened in July. The data center is designed to support “the company’s software plus services” strategy, namely its online, live and cloud services.

Unlike many modern data centers that use refrigerators to cool server rooms, installation of Microsoft, from Dublin to new uses free cooling 95 percent of the time. In other words, the data center uses nothing more than the outside air to prevent their servers from overheating.

This alternative to server rooms cooler coolers helps save a lot of energy and water, making it more environmentally friendly data center.

According to the blog post of Arne Josefsberg, Microsoft’s general manager of infrastructure services and services of the Global Foundation, the data center has “air handling units on the roof,” that “draw outside air down the plant to cool the server room and then return to warm air toward the ceiling again. ”

From the data center does not use coolers, uses less than 1 percent of the water that the typical use of data centers each year, reducing the number of efficient energy use in half.

Chillerless One reason why Microsoft has taken-data centers is that their server rooms can operate at temperatures as high as 95 degrees Fahrenheit to save energy costs associated with refrigeration. Most data centers maintain a server room temperature between 68 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit.

Microsoft Data Center also has a cooling system backup in case the temperature of its rooms rised above 95 degrees.

Google Data Center Belgium has no mechanical backup cooling. However, the installation of the transfer of all tasks to a custom built out of 36 other Google data centers when the temperature was too high.