The data-center work was never theoretical.
A public account of the operational work behind a more efficient production data center—and the perspective Ken brought to it.
Efficiency is an operating decision.
In 2013, Accu-Tech profiled Hostirian’s cold-aisle-containment upgrade. The story followed a 4,500-square-foot project designed to reduce wasted power and make the production environment more efficient.
Ken Cox, then Vice President of Operations, was quoted on the practical reason for the work: in a production data center, power is not an abstract concern. It is an operating constraint that shapes the business every day.
“The load in the new CAC pods is using about 50 percent less power” than the legacy data center, with the same IT load.
Read the original reporting.
This page is a short contextual summary of Accu-Tech’s November 21, 2013 article, “Be the Superhero of your Data Center: Energy Savings.” Figures and the quoted language above are attributed to that article and describe the project at that time.