Data center cleaning standards, based on the international standards for cleanroom, clean zones and controlled environment (Data Centre's / Data Rooms are controlled environments) ISO 14644-1. The ISO 14644-1 2015 series of standards (14644-1 to 14644-12) are a series of documents that establish various classifications for cleanliness as well as methods for testing compliance, test methods, design/constructions/start up considerations, and others. Data Centre Cleaning Standards, Data Room Cleaning Standard and Comms Room Cleaning Standard are based on the same ISO 14644-1 2015 Class 8 standard as these rooms are controlled environments.

Dissipating heat is essential to data center operations, which means maintaining a steady airflow through the data center. But this constant airflow can bring with it dust, dirt, and other types of particulates that find their way into your equipment’s delicate electronic cards. Dust form a layer over the heat dissipating components and with covered in dust, this heat is not dissipated resulting in failure.

The data center standard that most data centers (which are controlled environments) need to be kept clean too is ISO 14644-1 Class 8 standard or better. Class 8 allows 3,52 million 0.5μm particles per cubic meter. Class 8 is often referred to as a 5 Micron Clean or Clinical Clean. Most of the equipment manufacturer including IBM, Dell, Cisco, Sun and EMC now all state what the acceptable levels of contamination are for their equipment. All three hardware vendors now state that "their equipment must be kept in a data center which has been decontaminated to a sufficient level on the ISO 14644-1 Clean Room and Controlled environment scale"  This is Class 8 or better.

ENERGENIQ performs clean room testing as per ISO-14644-1 Standard by using state of the art apparatus and qualified personals. This testing is performed throughout the designated area and a test report is shared based on the data collected by the apparatus.