Cooling the Server Room?

kolchak asks: "As the Australian summer heats up, we are looking at a cooling solution for our computer room. We have 4 racks (almost all full) with around 40 machines, switches, routers, 2 UPSs and 2 monitors. Unfortunately, its located in the middle of the office with no windows available for ventilation. We can vent the exhaust into the ceiling space which in turn is vented outside. Also, since the room is so small, we need to install any cooling device outside the room (a store room backs on which will house the cooling unit and potentially pipe hot / cold air through the wall). All the units we've seen so far need to be in the room, we just don't have the space. Anyone come across and solved this? Any ideas on good cooling units we can install easily and cheaply?"

Comments

Re:Here's a free clue from America:

[Anonymous Coward]

You live in a country that has one of the lowest population densities. Get more space. Yeah - and all that free space? Why, it's in the middle of the frickin desert. Which, yannow, is a really great way to keep cool.

Let's make a deal

[cybermace5]

See, I live in Wisconsin. And it's starting to get kind of cold. We'll let you run an air duct from here to Australia and take our cold air, if you put in another air duct blowing some of your warm air back here. Give us a call and we'll talk it over.

Re:Let's make a deal

[ted_nugent]

Now you're just being silly. Running a dedicated physical medium all that way would never work. You're better off using FTP, or setting up a .torrent

Whatever you do...

[jarndt]

...don't do this.

Outsource your servers to Canada for 6 months

[mnmn]

Here in winter, we've shut down our rack fans, turned off ACs and are looking at ways to make ourselves warmer. We could use some aussi machines to help in this time of need. Canada has enough electricity to export