Host Rich Miller talks with cooling expert Kevin Facinelli, President, Data Center Cooling at Nortek Air Solutions about the challenges of keeping servers cool as data centers get larger and taller. Also: Will vacant office space house servers in the poet-COVID economy?   Rich and Kevin discuss key trends in data center cooling, including:

• How to adapt cooling systems for hyperscale data center designs

  SHOW NOTES   Here are some resources about Nortek:   Nortek Air Solutions web site https://www.nortekair.com/products/data-center-products/   Here's the white paper Rich & Kevin discussed on the podcast:   Solutions to Data Center Water & Power Availability https://datacenterfrontier.com/white-paper/solutions-data-center-water-power/   An overview of Nortek's StatePoint cooling system and its use in warm climates: https://datacenterfrontier.com/new-design-helps-facebook-keep-data-cool-in-hot-climates/    Decreasing Water & Power Will Help Data Centers Reach Sustainability Goals (Nortek Voices column on DCF) https://datacenterfrontier.com/power-water-data-centers-sustainability-goals/   Amid COVID-19, Legionella Raises Key Questions for Data Centers (Nortek Voices column on DCF) https://datacenterfrontier.com/legionella-is-the-covid-19-of-the-data-center-industry/   Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksfacinelli/   Here's some of Data Center Frontier's in=depth coverage of some of the trends discussed today:   Data Center Cooling Channel

https://datacenterfrontier.com/category/data-center-cooling/   Rack Density Keeps Rising at Data Centers https://datacenterfrontier.com/rack-density-keeps-rising-at-enterprise-data-centers/   As Rack Densities Rise, Liquid Cooling Specialists Begin to See Gains

 https://datacenterfrontier.com/as-rack-densities-rise-liquid-cooling-specialists-begin-to-see-gains/​