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Originally Posted by Maverick
How does one determine the cooling needs if a datacenter, Does it has some relation with the average power consumption of the data center?
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If you know the total power consumption of the entire datacenter, or just individual racks, a rule of thumb is, that approximately 80% of the power consumed is transferred into heatloss. In reality it's a little less than 80%, but then you're on the safe side when designing your cooling solution.