Mestex Unveils Open Access Project - HispanicBusiness.com

"The digital revolution is sapping the power grid, but a new approach to data center construction may help reverse the trend of ever-increasing energy consumption for powering and cooling these facilities, reports Mestex, a company focused on evaporative cooling systems. According to a release, to help data center operators better understand their options, Mestex said it is providing a free tool to demonstrate how infrastructure can be better deployed to manage competing demands for more capacity and greater energy efficiency ... The company noted it believes intelligent technology combined with a flexible, scalable and energy-saving approach is the best way to 'build as you grow.' Adding plug-and-play cooling units - such as Mestex's own Aztec Evaporative Cooling Units - as capacity increases is the most economical strategy for data centers to manage expansion or new construction while reducing total cost of ownership. Aztec systems are proven to lower power usage by 70 percent when compared to traditional air conditioning; the system's digital controls, when integrated with other building automation systems, can extend that savings even further. To help data center operators get a realistic picture of how their own expansion might play out, the company recently launched the Mestex Open Access Project to provide information technologists, facility managers and financial executives the ability to evaluate energy-saving concepts in a real-world environment ..."