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Equation 5 · Part 4 · AI Datacenter Power and Cooling: A First-Principles Introduction

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PUE=EfacilityEIT.\mathrm{PUE} = \frac{E_{\mathrm{facility}}}{E_{\mathrm{IT}}}.
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Divide the expression above the line by the one below it.

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The expression above the fraction bar is divided by the complete expression below it. The denominator must not be zero.

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Two ratios recur throughout this series, and both are simpler than their reputation suggests. Power usage effectiveness compares the total electricity a facility draws to the electricity that reaches the computing equipment itself: PUE=EfacilityEIT\mathrm{PUE} = \frac{E_{\mathrm{facility}}}{E_{\mathrm{IT}}}. The Green Grid, the industry consortium that introduced the metric in 2007 and later consolidated its guidance into a single reference document, defines it plainly: “PUE for a dedicated building is the total facility energy divided by the IT equipment energy. PUE is an end-user metric used to help improve energy efficiency in data center operations” [ 5 ] . An ideal value is 1.0, meaning every watt drawn by the site reaches the computing load;…

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A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.

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