Construction Magazine December 2019 | Page 130

ESTRUXTURE
COMPANY FACTS
• Constructing facilities in Montreal and Vancouver
• In the last year , has acquired data centers in Calgary and Vancouver
130 heat that we strive to re-use through heat exchangers , either in our own building through uses like heating our office space and / or by providing it to other adjacent buildings or businesses .” It ’ s also about making sure facilities run as efficiently as possible , with ramifications from both a business and sustainability perspective . “ A traditional data center has total energy expenditure for cooling alone of 50 % or more of critical IT load – sometimes significantly higher . In eStruxture ’ s case , we were able to achieve a yearly average power saving of about 70 % through the use of air flow management , CFD analysis and air side economisers , allowing us to benefit from the lower ambient temperatures in Canada that enable us to achieve up to eight months per year of free cooling .”
DECEMBER 2019