WHIRtv: Jeff Lowenberg on Data Center Efficiency and Cooling
August 5, 2008 by Kevin Hazard, Web Hosting Evangelist in Data Centers, Tech Stuff, The PlanetIn WHIRtv’s fourth installment of The Planet’s feature coverage, Anastasia Tubanos of The WHIR spoke with The Planet’s Vice President of Facilities Jeff Lowenberg about the company’s data centers, power efficiency and cooling techniques.
Jeff explains the significance of the “coefficient of efficiency” rating in a data center. You’ll hear first hand how the work we’ve completed over the past six months has decreased the proportion of power going to cool the data center’s IT load relative to the power used to run the IT load.
Watch the video below to learn more about the ways we are reducing our energy consumption and improving the way our data centers operate … you’ll also get some great footage from inside our H2 data center.












