Datacenter

A datacenter is a building that supplies power, cooling, physical security, and network connectivity to servers.

A datacenter is a building that supplies power, cooling, physical security, and network connectivity to servers. The business of a datacenter is power conversion and heat removal. Its capacity is measured in megawatts and not in servers, because power and heat removal are the binding constraints. A rack of GPU servers can draw tens of kilowatts, which is several times the draw of a rack of general-purpose servers.