center may include sections 210 that store the network elements each section 210 is associated with sensors that provide the airflow database with climate data each section 210 of the data center may include subsections contain sensors and network elements the subsection may provide a granular look at the climate data in each of the sections fig3 a illustrates an ams that detects a hotspot in a subsection and routes air between subsections of a section in the data center to remove the hotspot fig3 a is a route diagram that illustrates an exemplary routing decision according to embodiments of the present invention a data center having section a includes subsections 310 320 330 and 340 each of subsections 310 320 and 330 are operating within the climate thresholds for the data center subsection 340 is not operating within the climate thresholds and contains a hotspot the ams detects the hotspot in subsection 340 and determines whether subsections 310 320 or 330 contain sufficient capacity and are capable of providing cool air to subsection 340 after traversing the airflow database the ams determines that section 330 is an ideal candidate for providing cool air the ams selects the subsection that is the closest to the subsection that needs air if there is more than one section that meets the distance criteria the ams selects one or more subsections that has the lowest temperature accordingly after traversing the airflow database and making the appropriate selections the ams generates instructions to trigger the hvac equipment to transfer cool air from subsection 330 to subsection 340 one of.