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Data Center Energy Consumption

Data center energy consumption refers to the amount of power used on an annual basis, measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh), to power the facility.

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Airside Economizer ASHRAE Thermal Guidelines Auto-Discovery

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B

Blade Server Branch Circuit Monitoring Bus Topology

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C

Cable Spaghetti Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)Certified Data Center Management Professional (CDCMP®)Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP®)Cloud Computing Cold Aisle Containment Colocation Data Center Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC)Computer Room Air Handler (CRAH)Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

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D

Data Center Data Center Asset Audit Data Center Asset Management Data Center Automation Data Center Busway Data Center Cable Management Data Center Capacity Planning Data Center Carbon Footprint Data Center CMDB Data Center Components Data Center Consolidation Data Center Containment Data Center Cooling Data Center Energy Consumption Data Center Energy Efficiency Data Center Environment Monitoring Data Center Evaporative Cooling Data Center Gray Space Data Center Hot Spots Data Center Infrastructure Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)Data Center KPIs Data Center Liquid Cooling Data Center Maintenance Data Center Management Data Center Migration Data Center Monitoring Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI)Data Center Physical Security Data Center Project Management Data Center Redundancy Data Center Service Management (DCSM)Data Center Services Data Center Sustainability Data Center Tiers Data Center Uptime Data Center Water Cooling Data Center White Space Delta-T Digital Twin Data Center Direct Current Data Center Direct Current Power

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E

Edge Computing Edge Data Center Edge Infrastructure Electronic Door Locks Environmental Sensors

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F

FedRAMP Compliance Requirements Free Cooling

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G

Ghost Server Green Data Center

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H

High-Density Data Center Hot Aisle Containment

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I

IDF Closet Intelligent PDU IT Asset Management (ITAM)

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M

Main Distribution Frame (MDF)Managed PDU MDF and IDF Mesh Topology Metered PDU Micro Data Center Microchannel Cooling Moves, Adds, and Changes (MAC)

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N

N+1 Redundancy Network Documentation Network Topology Diagram

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P

PCI Compliance Requirements Power Distribution Unit (PDU)Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)Psychrometric Chart

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R

Rack Diagram Rack Elevation Rack PDU Rack Server Rack Unit (RU)Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM)Ring Topology

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S

Second-Generation DCIM Server Rack Smart PDU Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)Star Topology Structured Cabling Submerged Server Cooling Switched PDU

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T

Telecommunications Data Center Temperature Sensors Three-Phase Load Balancing Three-Phase Power Tier 1 Data Center Tier 2 Data Center Tier 3 Data Center Tier 4 Data Center

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U

U Position Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

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W

Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE)Water-Cooled Server Rack Waterside Economizer What-If Analysis

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