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Intel’s nominal data-center<br />

power flows (these figures vary greatly<br />

between installations!)<br />

Total<br />

input<br />

275<br />

W<br />

Power consumption: 2.75 × 100 W IT Load<br />

IT<br />

eqt.<br />

load<br />

100W<br />

UPS<br />

+<br />

Room cooling PDU<br />

system 70 WW 20 W<br />

Server<br />

fans<br />

15 W<br />

PSU<br />

50 W<br />

Drawing adapted from LBNL; data from Intel Corporation<br />

VR<br />

20 W<br />

The “overhead” for power and cooling systems is sometimes this big,<br />

but LBNL usually measures more like 80–90% overhead, not 175%.<br />

But these support systems incur ~75–80% of the facility’s capital cost.<br />

Time to start at the root of the problem, tracing heat back to its source

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