In our How to Speak Like a Data Center Geek series, we aim to answer all the questions you’ve always wanted to ask about data centers—as well as the ones you never even thought to ask. In this edition, we’ll be tackling the critical issue of data center cooling. As servers run in data centers, they inevitably create heat, and they must be cooled in order to continue functioning properly. It’s a straightforward issue of thermodynamics, but it’s an issue that data center operators are obsessed with solving in the most efficient way possible. We do this for two simple…

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