Equation 13 · The Physical Plant: Power, Cooling, and Networks in an AI Datacenter
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Three failure modes follow directly from the algebra, and they are analysis rather than sourced claim. One: moving a cooling function inside the IT boundary improves PUE. Server fans are counted in ; a room that pushes 15% of rack power through fans reports a better PUE than one that removes the same heat with facility pumps, while consuming more total energy for the same computation. Two: PUE is a ratio, so it improves when the denominator grows. A hall running its accelerators flat out reports a better PUE than the same hall running at half load, with no efficiency change whatever. Three: PUE says nothing about work done. A facility computing nothing at full power can…
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Three failure modes follow directly from the algebra, and they are analysis rather than sourced claim. One: moving a cooling function inside the IT boundary improves PUE. Server fans are counted in ; a room that pushes 15% of rack power through fans reports a better PUE than one that removes the same heat with facility pumps, while consuming more total energy for the same computation. Two: PUE is a ratio, so it improves when the denominator grows. A hall running its accelerators flat out reports a better PUE than the same hall running at half load, with no efficiency change whatever. Three: PUE says nothing about work done. A facility computing nothing at full power can report an excellent PUE.
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