Since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, the building and design industry has been parsing out the legislation’s various tools and tax incentives that are newly available to building professionals who wish to apply strategic, high-performance planning to their projects.
While many design requirements associated with current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) spaces are required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA), and others, the engineer must be aware of several factors.
While most data centers use air-cooled chillers that have free cooling coils to benefit from lower ambient conditions, air-cooled, magnetic bearing centrifugal chillers can operate at inverted conditions and provide free cooling without the need for additional coils.
Beyond their premiere 162,000-square-foot flagship data center in Staten Island, Telehouse America also offers colocation at their second New York City site in Manhattan as well as another site in Los Angeles, California.
Chiller performance and size no longer need to be at odds. The same advancements driving energy efficiency are also enabling reduced chiller footprints in both air- and water-cooled equipment.
Innovations in power distribution equipment are delivering solutions to keep the power on — always. Data-driven insights and alerts from switchgear and circuit breakers are expanding the tools available to evaluate and prevent an outage.
Aging and outdated railroads limit speed and weight, so the upcoming modernization projects will deliver faster railways and increase the efficiency of economic exchanges. Many of the projects funded will involve replacing older railways more prone to breakage and derailments.
"The design of the chilled water cooling system within a data center is a critical part of its infrastructure," says author Patrick Cotton, Global Chiller Product Manager at Airedale.