| What do you do when you are managing one of the 30% to 50% of data centers which are going to run out of power and/or cooling within the next year? Build a new data center? According to the latest Uptime Institute data center survey that price tag may not be in this year's budget. It may not be possible to avoid spending $5-$25 million or more on that new data center, but it is very possible to delay that expenditure, and such a delay might not have strictly cash flow and capital management implications. Buying time may be necessary just to accommodate the lead time to bring on a new facility. Fortunately, implementing an effective airflow containment architecture in the data center can often add enough life to an existing data center to buy that extra time to bring on new space intelligently and in some cases, even remove the need for new construction. |
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