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Sure, but you don't need to cool heat you haven't generated.
by pedrocr 16y ago
Sure, but you don't need to cool heat you haven't generated.
- sandGorgon 16y agoI dont think it works that way - in centralised cooling spaces, they have to keep their cooling machines running. So, it costs the same whether you are generating that amount of heat or not. To cut down on cooling, you need to architect your farm to have smaller, independent cooling systems. However, your system must also be architected such that weird things like "only machine is active in my cooling cluster, so I cant shut down the cooling for that area" cannot happen. I'm not sure if things like that have been solved.
- pedrocr 16y agoThe AC will be on 24/7 but surely it will use less power if it has to get rid of less heat.
- brudgers 16y agoCorrect, HVAC systems are designed to handle variable capacity and to stand down as demand lessens in the same way as a data center is. It's such long standing practice that most recent homes even have variable speed compressors on the condensing unit and multi-speed fans on the air handler.
- DougBTX 16y agoI think pedrocr means that the baseline would be moved down, so that less cooling in total would be required, not that they reduce the amount of cooling used during usage dips.