ASHRAE Winter Conference
About the event
ASHRAE's winter technical conference on heating, cooling, ventilation and building energy performance, relevant to mechanical engineers designing data centre cooling.
Venue
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Read before you go
Explore the libraryArup (Arup Foresight) 2025
Data Centre Futures: Water - Strategic design for water-conscious data centres (Issue 01)
Show WUE (L/kWh) next to PUE for every heat-rejection option.
- About 22% of data centres use liquid cooling; cooling is roughly 20% of capex and 50% of opex.
Nortek Air Solutions 2021
Solutions to Water and Power Availability that Challenge the Future of Data Centers
In a site/sustainability module, estimate annual water (m3), WUE and cooling energy for alternative plant types at a chosen SAT, using local water and power tariffs.
- Case prices: water ~USD 2/m3, power ~USD 0.10/kWh.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2026
Guidelines: Impact of Strategies on Data Center Energy Consumption, Carbon Footprint, and Water Consumption (March 2026)
Evaluate cooling and siting options on energy, carbon, site water and water scarcity together, not on PUE or WUE alone.
- Same example: emissions fall from 3,500 to 2,700 t CO2/yr with the carbon factor of 0.26 kg CO2/kWh.
SoSo CAD
Check cooling capacity alongside your design
Review zone heat loads, available capacity and the capacity balance after the largest unit is lost in SoSo CAD.
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