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February 28, 2008

Green Technology -Degree Controls Joins the Green Grid to Promote Energy Efficiency in Data Centers

By Raju Shanbhag

Degree Controls, Inc. (DegreeC), a leading provider of thermal-management and dynamic-cooling technology for data centers has announced its membership in The Green Grid (News - Alert), a global consortium of more than 150 companies dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.

According to a report in pr-usa.net, Eric Birch, executive vice president and general manager of DegreeC's data center division, said in a press release: “With data center energy consumption already consuming two percent of the nation's electrical energy and on track to doubling in the next five years, The Green Grid is serving the important purpose of bringing the industry together to help solve this growing problem. DegreeC is proud to be a Member. There is not any one solution to the problem of data center energy consumption. Solving this problem will require effort from everyone in the industry. Greater adoption of more efficient servers is a step in the right direction”

Increasing the awareness about the growing problem of data center energy consumption, DegreeC brought together a number of experts for a series of seminars focused on reducing data center energy consumption in 2007. DegreeC has been an active member of The Alliance to Save Energy and has contributed to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) report on “Server and Data Center Efficiency.”

DegreeC has introduced its sophisticated cooling system, AdaptivCool and helped many corporations and universities reduce their data center energy consumption. It has also helped them to bring down the skyrocketing energy costs. AdaptivCool™ can reduce data center energy consumption by up to thirty percent.

AdaptivCool's temperature sensors dynamically controls data center airflow. One of the biggest issues in cooling high density IT racks: preventing the mixing of cool and hot air in the data center, is solved by directing cool air to the appropriate equipment and returning the hot air back to the CRACs. The network of AdaptivCool sensors detects where cooling is needed most, and prompts AdaptivCool™ air movers in the data center's floor and ceiling to redirect airflow to solve the problem immediately.

Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

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