Imagine what you could do with an extra $17,000 to spend on your data center. You could buy new racks, servers and routers, or complete that enticing expansion project that you have been considering. Unfortunately, you could be losing this much — or more — annually due to water inefficiency, while cooling your equipment, our research has found.
This inefficiency is primarily due to calcium carbonate scale buildup in data center cooling towers. As calcium builds up, chillers become less efficient because they produce an insulating layer that limits the heat being transferred to the outside cooling tower. For this reason, building owners must continuously look for ways to increase water efficiency and optimize heat transfer, while effectively eliminating and preventing buildup. In fact, recent research from IBM shows that 66 percent of surveyed companies are planning to or have already deployed water-saving solutions.
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