Data centre
Türkçe: Veri merkezi
A facility housing servers, storage and network equipment together with their power, cooling and security infrastructure.
// EXPLANATION
AI training has pushed data-centre power density to tens of kilowatts per rack. That puts grid connection, transformer capacity, backup power and cooling design at the centre of the engineering.
// ALSO KNOWN AS
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// RELATED TERMS
PUE (power usage effectiveness)The ratio of a data centre's total energy use to the energy used by IT equipment alone; the closer to 1.0 the more efficient.
Liquid coolingA cooling method that carries heat away from processors with a liquid (cold plates or immersion), which moves heat far better than air.
UPSUninterruptible power supply; a unit that keeps the load running from batteries when mains power is lost.
Power gridThe whole of the transmission and distribution lines, substations and switching equipment that moves energy from generation to consumers.
