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Data center environmental design

Data center environmental design

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Data center environmental design

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Let's begin our look at environmental controls and our environmental design with the classic hot and cold aisles that you would see in a data center with some other meaningful metrics. So what we see here in my rough diagram is this is going to be rack row number one, this This is gonna be rack row number two, and then of course, dot, dot, dot means we're going out rack three, rack four, rack five. It depends upon the size of your data center, right? So the chilled water here, this is gonna be with a cooler. The cooler is usually external, either external to this data center area or maybe even external to the building. Okay, so often the chiller units run outside. You would see them outside of the actual building facility. So chilled water going to the cooled unit. So this is the hot aisle, okay, over here. And so this is the hot side of the equipment intake, right? So this is just racks of blades, racks of servers, right? And this is the hot side. So we have the cool air passing…

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