ASHRAE
TC 9.9 Mission Critical Facilities, Technology Spaces and Electronic Equipment is concerned with the design, operations, maintenance, and efficient energy usage of modern data centers and technology spaces.
Along with the explosive growth of connected technologies (i.e. the Internet, mobile phones, telephony, etc.), high power density of electronic equipment has also been steadily increasing in recent years. In addition, the mission critical nature of computing has sensitized businesses to the health of their data centers. The combination of these effects has made it obvious that better alignment is needed between equipment manufacturers and facility operations personnel to ensure proper and fault tolerant operation within mission critical environments.
In order to address these concerns, TC 9.9 was formed. The committee is comprised of a wide range of industry representatives including but not limited to equipment manufacturers, consulting engineers, data center operators, academia, testing laboratories, government, etc. who are all committed to increasing and sharing the body of knowledge related to data centers.