-25 and no A/C

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Daughters work place A/C quit working. They don’t like -25. Servers shut down on overheat in the server room. Worst part is they’ve known for a while that temperatures were erratic and something needed to be done. Ooops.

eta: Other daughter who works for Tr—- offered a solution.
 
-25. Is that without windchill?
So far we are lucky there is little wind to cause windchill. Wind farm kind of around where I live, most them standing still. A few of them barely turning. Can't imagine they wouldn't have them in operation if there would be enough wind to operate them right now. Has to be demand from wherever they sell power to. Yes that energy is sold to a specific buyer(s), but is still dumped into the general grid near the wind farm.
 
I'm confused. Is this a question? Are you thinking out loud? :- )
Statement, but how do others handle excessive server room heat at -25 below when the A/C will not work
Yeah computers don't like to get heated up.... Bring in that cold outside air...
Daughter who works for Tr___-said she could set them right up with economizers.
 
... how do others handle excessive server-room heat at -25 below when the A/C will not work ...
That's one of the questions that led Ralph Liebert to create his line of computer-room air conditioners. Heat needs to be extracted from a computer room every day of the year, even when the outdoor temperature is too low for conventional comfort air-conditioning equipment to function. If it's cold enough outside, the outdoor refrigerant condensing pressure could be lower than the indoor refrigerant evaporating pressure.

One of Liebert's solutions was a system that circulated glycol antifreeze between indoor & outdoor heat exchangers. It's a HUGE energy saver during the cold months because it requires so much less energy to pump liquid glycol than to compress refrigerant vapor.

Air economizers are often a poor solution, leading to excessively-low humidity in a computer room.
 
We use economizers in conjunction with a steam generator humidifier. We're not a server farm, just a lowly TV station, but we make some heat from servers.

Closed-loop systems are great for keeping equipment clean, but bringing in outside air ought to be set up as Plan B, or C.
 
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