Data Center Knowledge’s Rich Miller noted some of the data-center-design principles that Apple has employed in its new iCloud data center, including, “a slab floor and a cooling system in which cold air enters the equipment area from overhead. Apple is using containment systems to separate the cold supply air for the servers from the exhaust heat, a strategy which dramatically improves the efficiency of data center cooling systems.”

That sounds remarkably similar to the cooling system strategy EasyStreet incorporated in its new Data Center 2. EasyStreet’s containment systems are chimney cabinets and connective ducts. The cold supply air floods the area via huge overhead fabric diffusers – a design that is, indeed, much more efficient than outmoded raised floors.

Here is one of many articles about Apple’s intriguing new facilities.