Regardless of the priority for indoor temperature, for much of the year it is cold enough for FreeCooling to be the right option for most equipment rooms and server rooms.
Our customers who use FreeCooling, but also have cooling equipment as a backup, tell us that these last much longer and that the number of emergency service calls are largely nonexistent, because the cooling equipment is used less than 10% of annual hours.
Equipment rooms with only cooling machines lead to costly service trips and high utility bills.
See the table below for a calculation of cost of ownership between those three options over a ten year period.
