It takes an enormous amount of electricity to cool a data center. According to Global Market Insights, on average, cooling systems represent 40% of total data center energy consumption.

Ten years in, the size of data centers has increased up to 5 to 10MW, and the wholesale real estate market took hold.

Acxiom is a database marketing company with locations across the globe, and like many of today’s data center operators, the company faced an increasingly common dilemma: the need to upgrade existing power infrastructure within critical facilities without halting operations.

The Travel Corp. (TTC) is a global vacation company operating 30 brands that travel to seven continents.

Information technology (IT) has been growing exponentially as people’s day-to-day lives grow more dependent on data processing.

In April of 2011, the University of Utah broke ground on a renovation to consolidate multiple production centers into a central multi-tier data center in support of their diverse program mix, which includes the university’s Center for High-Performance Computing (CHPC).