Open Rack Design Guide Available

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The Open Rack is the first rack standard that is designed for data centers, one that integrates the rack directly into data center infrastructure. Today we released a design guide for Open Rack. This guide provides specifications and guidelines to show suppliers of IT equipment how they can build systems compatible with the Open Rack.…

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Water Efficiency at Facebook’s Prineville Data Center

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Prineville 1 mechanical cooling system.

For Facebook, good data center design is all about efficiency — how efficiently we use energy, materials, and water, and how they tie together to bring about cost efficiency. We’ve previously shared information on energy and materials efficiency, and today we’re releasing our first water usage effectiveness (WUE) measurements and information on how we’ve achieved…

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