For the second day in a row now our new server room here at work has reached over 90 degrees by the time I’ve come in (it is also the second day in a row that I’ve been called before 7:00 AM). From what we can figure, the air conditioning unit is thinking that the outside temperature (around 10 degrees) is the inside temp, and instead of cooling, is heating. Why does it even know that it is cold outside? Well it looks like someone punctured the roof when working on it and that is causing the cold air to seep down to the air unit… nice. 
Yesterday it got so hot that one of our phone cards started to malfunction and caused about 20 people here to go without their phones till we cooled it off (canned air works wonders in a pinch). We called someone out, he puttered around for an hour or so, and called it fixed. Great. Well last night it actually got so bad that one of our servers actually failed and shut itself down… luckily we were able to get it to come up, but it never should have gotten anywhere close to that point in the first place. The only way we’re getting it to cool down now is actually having a giant fan blowing the hot air out of the room, which we have wide open… it looks ridiculous, but at least it’s working. We have a call in for people to not only fix the roof, but hopefully to disable the heating unit, period. I don’t care if it’s 40 degrees in there, I’ll wear a coat.
I swear, it better be an icebox in there tomorrow morning or heads will roll…
