George William Herbert wrote: > > Johnny writes: >>This discussion about plants, waterfalls and humidity is getting more >>and more off-tropic... > > Humidity is not off topic for a general or specific datacenter > conversation - it's a fairly routine issue in facilities. > > NANOG isn't facilities focused but I think that it comes up > enough (we're not hosting routers in closets anymore) that it's > legit for some discussion. > > The plants and waterfalls is probably drifting a bit far afield, > though... >
Perhaps not as far as one might think. I once had to work with a large data center, which was having a huge condensation and eventual corrosion problem on one side of the room. No one had made the connection that it was a shared wall with the main building atrium, which had an indoor waterfall that made quite an evaporative cooler. Extra wall insulation solved the problem.