Optimise cooling and server utilisation in the data centre

Data centres optimise cooling and server utilisation

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Computing load and cooling are planned so that less energy is needed for cooling and no hot spots form. Operations stay within the limits your equipment can handle.

Is this for you?

  • You run your own data centre or larger server rooms with readings for temperatures, power and utilisation that are hardly used today.
  • Part of the computing load can be shifted in time, for example nightly backups, analyses or test runs.
First step today

Take the load curve of a typical day in four-hour blocks, the outside temperatures and four shiftable computing jobs with rounded values, and use the template below to have it calculated when the jobs should run. Check the result yourself before you change anything.

How to go about it

  1. Define targets and limits
  2. Gather readings and loads
  3. Have an optimisation proposal calculated
  4. Have building services and IT operations check the proposals
  5. Change step by step and inform people
  6. Evaluate the effect and outliers monthly

Templates to copy

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IT-03 · Legal status 08.10.2026