Journal Journal: Data Center Design Power Rules
There's a data center I need to design for a corporation which has around 21 42U racks of space, 3 rows of 7 racks. The factor of 200W/sq.ft means nothing. There are deeper things involved when you come down to the crux,i.e., power requirements for UPS and cooling requirements. When I got down to calculating, I realized that 15kW per server rack will do the job with blade servers, at 70% filled. APC has some reference docs. However, I do not know the factors when it comes to network equipment r