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Data center environmental protection

Data center environmental protection

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Data center environmental protection

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- [Narrator] While heating and cooling concerns top the list of environmental concerns, data center managers must also be prepared for more serious situations such as fire, flooding and electromagnetic interference. Let's take a look at the controls used to protect against these risks. Fire is dangerous in any environment and it can be particularly damaging in a facility filled with electrical equipment. For this reason, data center managers must design fire detection and suppression systems that will detect and extinguish a fire before it grows out of control. Let's talk briefly about how fires start. In order for a fire to burn, it requires three key ingredients, oxygen, heat, and fuel. If you can deprive a fire of any one of these three elements, it will go out. The most common approach to fighting fires is the use of water, which deprives the fire of heat, but water is not effective against all types of fires, and it can damage electronic equipment. Fire extinguishers use the…

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