Mission critical facilities are exactly what they sound like: facilities that are designed to never shut down. No matter what the operation, it must run without interruption, otherwise it suffers major circumstances. And while regular maintenance is important for all HVAC applications, it is perhaps doubly so in mission critical facilities such as data centers. It reduces unplanned downtime, which prevents loss of service, revenue, and goodwill from the data center’s customers.
“Most HVAC is for comfort, but data center HVAC is geared for production,” said Rab Albert, data center technician, HMC Service Co., Louisville, Kentucky. “Data centers rely on consistently performing HVAC systems to maintain the air quality, which is crucial to their servers and specialty equipment running efficiently.”