Is net-zero feasible? How will the HFC phaseout impact engineering firms? Herb Woerpel, editor-in-chief of Engineered Systems, gained some answers from the attendees of Daikin's recent Group Sales Meeting. 

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.

Futureproofing, fallback options, and drawing out any client custom requirements early can point you toward success in these high-traffic, high-stakes facilities.

Modern data centers are evaluated not just on reliability but also on the efficiency of the cooling plant that supports them, so the cost to cool data center space is a key issue that must be addressed during design and system selection.