Equation 6 · The Physical Plant: Power, Cooling, and Networks in an AI Datacenter
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with mass flow , specific heat capacity , and the temperature rise T across the load. What matters for a datacenter is not per kilogram but the volumetric heat capacity , because the room has to physically contain the flow.
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