Equation 1 · Part 3 · Comparing the Main Approaches to AI Datacenter Power and Cooling
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
Water Usage Effectiveness, the metric LBNL uses throughout its modeling, is defined analogously to the more familiar Power Usage Effectiveness: . where is total on-site water consumption in litres and is the electricity delivered to IT equipment, giving WUE units of litres per kilowatt-hour rather than PUE’s dimensionless ratio [ 4 ] . What LBNL’s simulations across roughly 965 US weather stations and multiple facility archetypes show is that this number is driven overwhelmingly by which heat-rejection route a facility uses at the plant level — an economizer decision layered on top of, and largely independent from, the cooling method at…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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