Strategies To Maximize Cooling Efficiency
Cooling accounts for a significant share of data center energy use. Even modest efficiency improvements can lead to meaningful reductions in OPEX and carbon output. While IT hardware is advancing rapidly, cooling strategies often fall behind, hampered by legacy systems, siloed decision-making, and outdated assumptions. Airedale by Modine sees cooling efficiency as a system-level discipline, beginning with thoughtful design and continuing into day-to-day operation. This approach focuses on how components interact, systems scale with demand, and control strategies evolve over time. True efficiency results from aligning infrastructure, intelligence, and intent. Assessing the Efficiency Baseline Before you can improve, you need …
Embodied Carbon – Why it Matters for Data Center Sustainability
As the built environment aims for net zero, attention is rapidly shifting beyond operational energy to include the embodied carbon of products and systems – especially critical cooling equipment, which plays a major role in both construction and long-term building performance. At Airedale by Modine, we’re committed to supporting our customers on their journey to decarbonize buildings. That’s why we’re embracing methodologies like TM65, calculating the embodied carbon of our products, and working toward the development of carbon life cycle assessments (LCAs) and environmental product declarations (EPDs) to drive transparency and continuous improvement. But what exactly do these terms mean …
Retrofitting Legacy Data Centers for Efficient Cooling
Legacy data centers weren’t built for today’s workloads. High-density compute, accelerated AI models, and increasingly stringent sustainability metrics strain systems that were considered state of the art not long ago. Inadequate cooling infrastructure is often the limiting factor: inefficient, rigid, and unable to scale to meet demand. Building an entirely new facility isn’t always an option. Full facility rebuilds are rarely feasible due to budget constraints, operational risks, and space limitations. Instead, you can pragmatically solve your cooling problems by retrofitting your existing space. These targeted cooling upgrades can lower the risk of disrupting operations and introduce measurable performance improvements. …
