Re: an over-the-top data center

[Johnny Eriksson <bygg () cafax se>]

> Marshall wrote:
> > This is of course off-off-topic, but I would suspect the room  
> > temperature ultrasonic
> > misters, not dry ice or wood smoke.
> >
> > Regards
> > Marshall
>
> Concur.
>
> As anyone who works with air conditioning knows, ultrasonic are
> the low maintenance option for your humidifier units anyways.
> A lot of your datacenters have those 8-)
>
> There are also doors between the plants and NOC and the server
> rooms ...
>
> Having them external to the AC and pumping visible fog out into
> the room instead of invisible into the air feeds is unusual, but 
> if the resulting humidity (in the NOC, not the server rooms)
> is normal it's no big deal.  You can have the floor covered in
> an inch of water and the air be perfectly safe humidity for
> systems (just don't drop a live power cable in the water...).
>
> I wouldn't do this personally, but if done right it should be safe.

This discussion about plants, waterfalls and humidity is getting more
and more off-tropic...

> -george william herbert
> gherbert () retro com

--Johnny