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Data Center Energy: PUE, Cooling, Power Capacity & Carbon

Run the energy numbers of a data centre hands-on: IT load and kWh, PUE and DCiE, stranded rack power, cooling tons, N+1 and 2N UPS capacity, savings and payback of PUE projects, location- and market-based carbon with CUE, and AI rack density against capacity, every cell checked live.

8 lessons 8 labs 2 h Certificate

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What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

  • Turn the rack counts and average draw of the six areas of Kestrel DC-1 into IT load in kW, annual energy in kWh and MWh, and compare the average with the peak.
  • Calculate the monthly PUE and DCiE of Kestrel DC-1 from the utility and PDU meters, find the correct six-month PUE and chart how the summer cooling load pushes PUE up.
  • Compare the power provisioned to each rack row of Hall B with its measured peak, find the stranded kW and how much of the hall's UPS capacity is still free to sell.
  • Add up the heat sources of Hall C, convert kW to BTU/h and tons of refrigeration, and size the number of cooling units with ROUNDUP plus one redundant unit.
  • Size the UPS for Kestrel DC-1's planned 2,600 kW critical load: the N module count, installed kW and loading for N, N+1, 2N and 2(N+1), and which design tolerates a whole system being offline.
  • Price the annual energy of Kestrel DC-1 at its current PUE and three improvement projects, then calculate the savings and simple payback of each.
  • Turn Kestrel DC-1's quarterly electricity into location-based and market-based emissions, the renewable share from a power purchase agreement, and the annual CUE.
  • Forecast Kestrel DC-1's IT load from standard and AI/GPU racks to 2032, find the years without headroom, the AI share of the load and chart load growth against capacity.

About this course

Data centres consume huge amounts of power, and much of it never reaches the servers. This course teaches the calculations used to measure and plan that. You turn IT load into annual energy with a load factor and calculate PUE and DCiE. Capacity labs measure power per rack and stranded capacity. You convert cooling load between kilowatts, BTU per hour and tons of refrigeration, and size UPS installations for N, N+1 and 2N redundancy. Energy cost and savings from a better PUE follow, and carbon labs compare location-based and market-based emissions with CUE. The final lab tests how high-density GPU racks strain existing power capacity. For facility engineers, IT managers and sustainability analysts.

Curriculum

Course content

8 lessons · 8 labs · 2 h · final exam

  1. IT Load to Annual Energy: kW, kWh & Load FactorLab12 min4 checked tasks
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  2. PUE & DCiE: How Much Energy Reaches the IT?Lab15 min4 checked tasks
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  3. Power Capacity per Rack & Stranded CapacityLab15 min4 checked tasks
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  4. Cooling Load: kW, BTU/h & Tons of RefrigerationLab14 min4 checked tasks
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  5. UPS Redundancy: N, N+1, 2N & Installed CapacityLab14 min4 checked tasks
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  6. Energy Cost & Savings from a Better PUELab15 min4 checked tasks
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  7. Carbon: Location-Based, Market-Based & CUELab16 min4 checked tasks
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  8. GPU & AI Racks: Density Growth vs Power CapacityLab16 min4 checked tasks
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  9. Final exam12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

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