Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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been struggling with in the industry when people
were telling us well gee whiz you've got to go water
cooled because it's more efficient. That's because
some of the people weren't adding up all the parts
of the equation. And they were also ignoring the
cost of water and precious resources that we have
overseas as General Williams very nicely pointed
out. We don't want to be environmentally
unfriendly. We want to conserve where we can and so
we're taking giant steps.
And by the way, we're finding out that some
of the people here not too far from our building
right now are analyzing air versus water for large
installations going air, because of the cost of
water. And as you know, we're not going to look at
any decreases in those kind of costs in the near
future and we're building these buildings to last.
So, the lifecycle cost clearly points to go
simpler, smaller, an easier to maintain system that
is going to give us a lot of payback.
The other part, I think that needs to be
pointed out when we start looking at the flexible
loads, we're finding that special loads that used to
be a very small percentage of a building are now a
significant size of the building loads. And as we
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