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AI Data Centre · Level 4 of 8

Cooling hot spot

Level 4 of 8 in the AI Data Centre: a free data centre exercise at Intermediate level. The DCIM screen shows hot racks in pod B. Fix them with blanking panels, containment doors and air handler settings, keeping every inlet in range.

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3D view of the Cooling hot spot level in the AI Data Centre
Cooling hot spot

The brief

Client
Harbour Grid Data
Site
Pod B, Eastgate hall
Work order
WO-DC-104
Task code
DC-04
Difficulty
Intermediate
Type of work
Cooling

The DCIM screen shows hot racks in pod B. Fix them with blanking panels, containment doors and air handler settings, keeping every inlet in range.

Skills you practise

  • Blanking panels
  • Aisle containment
  • Air handler setpoint and fan speed
  • Inlet temperature envelope

What the test checks

The acceptance test marks the skills this level practises.

  • Blanking panels
  • Aisle containment
  • Air handler setpoint and fan speed
  • Inlet temperature envelope

In this lab

  • Rack and cable GPU servers
  • Power budgets and cooling
  • GPU jobs and a DCIM view

Levels in the AI Data Centre

Previous: Rack power budgetNext: PUE from a month of meters

  1. Safety walk and hall tour
  2. Rack and cable a GPU server
  3. Rack power budget
  4. Cooling hot spot
  5. PUE from a month of meters
  6. Replace a failed part from a ticket
  7. Training job slowdown
  8. Power event drill

Part of the AI Data Centre

Walk an AI data hall, rack and cable a GPU server, and size its power and cooling.

About the AI Data Centre

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