AI Data Centre · Level 5 of 8
PUE from a month of meters
Level 5 of 8 in the AI Data Centre: a free data centre exercise at Intermediate level. Work out the hall's power usage effectiveness from 30 days of meter readings, then decide which of five upgrades saves the most energy.
Free · no download. Your work is saved on this device. Updated 18 Oct 2026.
The brief
- Client
- Meadowbank Analytics
- Site
- Main hall, Hillcrest campus
- Work order
- WO-DC-105
- Task code
- DC-05
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Type of work
- Reporting
Work out the hall's power usage effectiveness from 30 days of meter readings, then decide which of five upgrades saves the most energy.
Skills you practise
- PUE
- Reading energy meters
- Where the overhead goes
What the test checks
The acceptance test marks the skills this level practises.
- PUE
- Reading energy meters
- Where the overhead goes
In this lab
- Rack and cable GPU servers
- Power budgets and cooling
- GPU jobs and a DCIM view
Levels in the AI Data Centre
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Part of the AI Data Centre
Walk an AI data hall, rack and cable a GPU server, and size its power and cooling.
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