Temp at Level 3 data centers

Sam Kretchmer sam at coeosolutions.com
Wed Oct 11 14:42:54 UTC 2017


with a former employer we had a suite at the L3 facility on Canal in
Chicago. They had this exact issue for the entire time we had the suite.
They kept blaming a failing HVAC unit on our floor, but it went on for
years no matter who we complained to, or what we said.

Good luck.


On 10/11/17, 7:31 AM, "NANOG on behalf of David Hubbard"
<nanog-bounces at nanog.org on behalf of dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:

>Curious if anyone on here colo¹s equipment at a Level 3 facility and has
>found the temperature unacceptably warm?  I¹m having that experience
>currently, where ambient temp is in the 80¹s, but they tell me that¹s
>perfectly fine because vented tiles have been placed in front of all
>equipment racks.  My equipment is alarming for high temps, so obviously
>not fine.  Trying to find my way up to whomever I can complain to that¹s
>in a position to do something about it but it seems the support staff
>have been told to brush questions about temp off as much as possible.
>Was wondering if this is a country-wide thing for them or unique to the
>data center I have equipment in.  I have equipment in several others from
>different companies and most are probably 15-20 degrees cooler.
>
>Thanks,
>
>David




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