I don t live far south but in the summer during the high 80 s and 90 s days.
Attic server room.
You may want to keep some damp rid in the room to cut the excess water in the air.
Servers must continuously be kept online as they.
Although these days you sometimes see loft apartments for rent or sale.
If the server room has hollow doors and thin walls then sound can easily pass through them.
If your ac unit is oversized.
You need to get in through a trapdoor using a ladder not the stairs.
Very similar to an attic except for two things.
And even my salt lamps will melt a little.
Adding a server closet return.
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You can see the old bits of just added insulation inside for example and the occ.
It isn t long before the ac makes the room very damp feeling.
Air conditioners can be pretty loud so that s another reason why we need to focus on the server room as well not just the server.
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You can t use it as a proper room.
In addition to that many server rooms have an air conditioner of some sort as well.
To solve for exhausting this heat i took a two pronged approach.
The house is a 1 story ranch with an attic and crawlspace.
Ever wonder why computer rooms in many places always seem colder than the rest of the building.
I d like to vent this heat outside the hvac envelope of the house to reduce the load on my a c during the summer and isolate the server room from the rest of the house i e.
They re basically attic apartments but they probably think that loft sounds nicer.
In 2014 this attic looked just like any other attic anywhere in the world.
What we need to do is exhaust the warm air from the room not inject air.
The crawl is encapsulated.
There s a good reason for that.
I have a similar set up in a finished section attic.
I was able to mix and match to get things up and running but the damage had been done.
It generates a good amount of heat.
Keep it from making the adjoining bedroom as hot.