The Complete Guide to Data Center Cooling: Air, Liquid, Immersion, and Thermal Management for Modern High-Density and AI Computing - Tapa blanda

The Complete Guide to Data Center Cooling (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Every watt of computing power eventually becomes heat-and removing that heat has become one of the defining engineering challenges of the modern data center.As artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, cloud infrastructure, and increasingly powerful processors drive rack densities to unprecedented levels, traditional approaches to data center cooling are being pushed to their limits. Understanding thermal management is no longer a specialized concern. It is fundamental to the design, reliability, efficiency, and future of digital infrastructure.The Complete Guide to Data Center Cooling provides a comprehensive exploration of the technologies, engineering principles, equipment, and operational practices used to control heat inside modern data centers.Beginning with the fundamentals of heat generation, heat transfer, airflow, temperature, humidity, and psychrometrics, the book explains why servers produce heat, how that heat moves through a facility, and how cooling systems ultimately transport thermal energy from electronic components to the outside environment.Readers are introduced to the traditional air-cooling systems that have supported data centers for decades, including CRAC and CRAH units, computer-room airflow, raised floors, supply and return air, hot-aisle and cold-aisle configurations, containment systems, economizers, chillers, cooling towers, pumps, heat exchangers, and building mechanical infrastructure.From there, the book moves into the rapidly evolving world of high-density and AI data center cooling.Modern GPU servers and AI computing clusters can concentrate extraordinary amounts of power-and therefore heat-into individual racks. The book examines why this development is accelerating the adoption of direct-to-chip liquid cooling, cold plates, coolant distribution units, facility water systems, rear-door heat exchangers, immersion cooling, hybrid air-and-liquid architectures, and other advanced thermal-management technologies.Explore the Complete Cooling ChainCooling a data center involves far more than simply blowing cold air across servers.The Complete Guide to Data Center Cooling follows heat through the entire thermal pathway-from the silicon generating it to the systems ultimately rejecting it into the environment.Readers will explore: How servers, CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage, and power electronics generate heatFundamentals of conduction, convection, thermal resistance, and heat transferAirflow management and the movement of heat through server racksHot aisles, cold aisles, containment, bypass air, and recirculationCRAC and CRAH systems and their roles within the data centerChilled-water systems and central cooling plantsChillers, pumps, cooling towers, condensers, evaporators, and heat exchangersDX cooling and refrigerant-based systemsFree cooling, economization, and environmental operating strategiesTemperature and humidity managementSensors, controls, monitoring, and building management systemsCooling redundancy, reliability, and fault tolerancePreventive maintenance and cooling-system operationsUnderstand Liquid CoolingAs computing density increases, moving heat through air becomes progressively more difficult.This guide examines the engineering transition from traditional air cooling toward liquid-assisted and liquid-cooled data centers, explaining both the technology and the infrastructure required to support it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798174153851

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