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Water towers/tap water depend entirely on the amount of heat you are trying to lose divided by the amount of space you have to lose it in. I am sure some colos can just open the windows (if they have any) and run some fans. :) DJ > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Mikael Abrahamsson > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:56 PM > To: Deepak Jain > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Even the New York Times withholds the address > > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Deepak Jain wrote: > > > Some facilities (Terremark comes to mind) offer chilled water > from the local > > power company so you don't need to have your own chillers. What > is the fault > > tolerance requirement for a power-company chiller plant though? > > We use chilled water (4-8 C) with regular tap water as a backup (separate > system). We have a water tower nearby, they say they can give us very high > probability that any one of these two will provide cooling at any given > time. As far as I know none of them have failed during the past two years > of operation. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] > > >
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