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A New York State organization has reimbursed a Manhattan bank for half of the cost of installing a new temperature monitoring and control system in its data center.
The unnamed bank received $16,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for deploying AdaptivCool’s Room Scale Intelligent Cooling solution at its mission-critical facility in New York City’s financial center, according to an AdaptivCool news release.
The solution uses multiple temperature sensors placed around the data center that send information to the central Cooling Resource Manager. The manager uses the data to calculate cooling demand in the data center in real time and dynamically adjust airflow.
NYSERDA provides a wide range of incentive programs for various energy efficiency improvements individuals and organizations undertake in their homes or facilities. The authority is charged with improving the state’s energy efficiency by encouraging development and use of innovative technologies.
The organization is funded by state ratepayers.
The said bank is one of a relatively few companies that are taking aggressive action to monitor and manage energy use in their data centers. In a study whose results were announced in September, IT market analysis firm Gartner concluded that only 18 percent of data center operators surveyed were considering procurement of new energy efficiency solutions for their data centers.
Almost half of respondents turned out to not have given any serious thought to measuring their facilities’ energy efficiency.
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