Ask any junior high science student and they’ll state water and electricity don’t mix, but for the HVAC industry, both of these are shaping up to be staples of the future. Utilizing more sustainable ...

The second case study in this series had a system configuration depicted in Figure 1. The condenser water system had heat trace on the outdoor piping as well as a basin heater in the cooling tower.

Liquid cooling can require intensive water use, with a 1-MW data center using up to 25.5 million liters of water per year. Today’s data centers easily reach into the hundreds of megawatts, with ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a multi-part series by Brad Buecker, President of Buecker & Associates, LLC. Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here. For decades, ...