Cold Aisle Containment - The Cost Benefit Case
Key Cost Benefits of Cold Aisle Containment:
- Savings of between 10 and 30% of the current operational cost of building cooling systems supporting data centres.
- Full return on investment in ~9 months is highly achievable just from power savings.
- Increased capability to utilise available rack-space where, previously, cooling inhibited the use. Postponing the
acquisition of new space can have a major cost benefit. - Power savings on room hardware (servers, switches, routers, etc) and extended equipment life spans.
- Financial benefit from reduced carbon emissions associated with running the data centre.
Sample Cost Benefit Case
This example is based on modelling the following scenario:
- A single site, 100 cabinet computer room
- A reasonably efficient data centre with a PUE of 2.0 and cooling consuming 36% of the overall facility power
- An assumption that 20% of the cooling costs will be saved by deploying Cold Aisle Containment
- Investment in the solution is depreciated over 7 years.
