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Scientific papers

Peer-reviewed articles and preprints; most are downloadable under open licences.

Sources
183
Downloadable PDFs
139
Years
2014–2026

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121–144 / 183

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Sensors (MDPI AG) 2022

Prediction of Overall Energy Consumption of Data Centers in Different Locations

In siting, do not use PUE as the only criterion; evaluate it together with electricity cost (tariff) and carbon (CUE, grid mix) estimates derived from PUE, since a low-PUE site may have a high tariff or carbon-intensive grid.

  • For an assumed 100 million kWh/yr of IT energy, estimated annual electricity cost ranged from $8.1376M (Delinha) to $9.6742M (Yinchuan) among five regions.
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Fire (MDPI AG) 2026

Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Grid-Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage System Fire Hazards: Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) Toxicity, Suppression Effectiveness, and Comparative Compartment Design Analysis

Compare BESS compartmentation quantitatively: two compartments halve HF dose and IDLH clearance time, but IDLH is still exceeded for anyone in the room in full thermal runaway, so runaway prevention (BMS integrity, UL 9540A containment, emergency power off) must stay the primary control.

  • Mean IDLH (25 mg/m³) clearance time with 9 ACH was 599 min for one compartment and 301 min for two; the probability of clearing within 5 min was 0% for both.
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Energy and Buildings (Elsevier) 2021

Prototype energy models for data centers

Use the prototype densities and the approach-temperature concept to calibrate the tool's hourly cooling model and containment effectiveness.

  • The models follow ASHRAE 90.1 minimum requirements across vintages.
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Fire (MDPI AG) 2026

Reframing Data Center Fire Safety as a Socio-Technical Reliability System: A Systematic Review

Ask for a fire-safety design file that covers a lifecycle plan (aligned with NFPA 75 and NFPA 76) including emergency response, damage control and post-fire recovery, not only prevention and suppression.

  • The search found 806 records (Scopus 330, Web of Science 476); twelve empirical studies were synthesised and benchmarked against NFPA 75 and NFPA 76.
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arXiv preprint (Oklahoma State University / New York University) 2026

Regime-Adaptive Weighted Ensemble Learning for Computing-Driven Dynamic Load Forecasting in AI Data Centers

For operations and grid-interaction features, use regime-aware (idle/ramp/high) minute-resolution IT load forecasting with job-scheduler signals (active jobs) as inputs, rather than only historical kW.

  • Relative to the strongest baseline (1D-CNN) the method improves NRMSE by 66.1% and NMAE by 80.2%.
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Proceedings of the 2018 3rd Joint International Information Technology,Mechanical and Electronic Engineering Conference (JIMEC 2018) (Atlantis Press) 2018

Research on Availability of Data Center UPS Power Supply System

Offer 'UPS + utility (mains) dual bus' as a topology template beside 2N and N+1, with an RBD calculation that shows it can match 2N for dual-corded IT load.

  • Power-system failures are cited as 72.2% of data-centre failures.
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World Electric Vehicle Journal (MDPI AG) 2023

Research on Calendar Aging for Lithium-Ion Batteries Used in Uninterruptible Power Supply System Based on Particle Filtering

Plan UPS battery replacement from the RUL of the weakest cell rather than the string average; in a series string one cell sets the replacement date for the whole string even when others have years of life left.

  • Per-cell SOH estimation RMSE ranged from 0.15% to 9.07% (MAPE 0.16% to 6.85%).
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Sustainability (MDPI AG) 2026

Retrofit Optimization of Raised-Floor Plenum Thermal Performance for Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Operation of Non-Standard Campus Data Centers

For plenum imbalance, consider a 50%-perforated transverse baffle about 0.3 m from the unit outlet; 50% open gave a smaller resistance increase than 30% (8.5% against 18.7%).

  • For S4, SHI fell from 0.42 to 0.35, maximum rack inlet temperature fell from 27.2 °C to 26.7 °C, and all racks met the 27 °C ASHRAE recommended limit.
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IEEE Access (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)) 2026

Review of the 800-VDC Power Delivery Architecture and Isolated 800-V to 48-V Converter Solutions for Future AI Data Centers

Define 800 VDC unipolar, ±400 VDC bipolar and 48/54 VDC busbar as separate voltage classes in the single-line diagram, each with its own conductor ampacity, breaker pole count and clearance (IEC 60664-1) checks.

  • The OCP Open Rack V3 PSU specification targets above 97.5% peak efficiency and at least 96.5% across 30%-100% load.
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arXiv preprint (cs.DC) 2024

SCARIF: Towards Carbon Modeling of Cloud Servers with Accelerators

Add an embodied-carbon estimator per server SKU using the SCARIF linear model (5.01 kg per CPU core, 0.16 kg/GB SSD, 0.04 kg/GB HDD, 0.95 kg/GB DRAM, 83.08 kg x (year-2000), intercept -1100), and tag the result as an approximate, vendor-calibrated value.

  • Total embodied carbon of the highest/lowest servers: Dell 1782/1133, HP 3880/423, Lenovo 15593/585 kgCO2e.
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arXiv (Texas Tech University) 2021

Short Circuit and Arc Flash Study on a Microgrid Facility

In a data-centre LV system with generator backup, run the arc-flash study for both grid-connected and islanded topologies, and check that the much lower islanded fault current (1,296 A instead of 22,793 A) does not lengthen clearing time.

  • A factor of 1.4 was applied to the datasheet maximum short-circuit current of inverter-based sources as a safety band.
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Fire (MDPI AG) 2023

Simulation Test on Cooling and Fire Suppression with Liquid Nitrogen in Computer Room of Data Center

When assessing non-gas, non-water suppression options, note liquid nitrogen only as a preliminary-stage option, and ask for full-scale testing and an occupant-safety analysis for oxygen depletion before taking design values.

  • Liquid nitrogen extinguished the optical-fibre fire within 3 min and the UPS-component fire within 2 min.
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Building Simulation (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 2020

Simulation-based assessment of data center waste heat utilization using aquifer thermal energy storage of a university campus

When considering connecting a data centre to an ATES, make the yearly heat balance (imported versus exported heat) the first feasibility check; a continuously cooling data centre can shift it toward heat rejection.

  • Cooperation with ATES improves average PUE from 1.78 to 1.45.
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arXiv (UC Riverside / RIT / Caltech preprint) 2026

Small Bottle, Big Pipe: Quantifying and Addressing the Impact of Data Centers on Public Water Systems

Add a peak-day water demand output (annual average times peaking factor, default at least 2.2 for cooling towers, configurable up to about 6-10 for evaporative assist used only on hot days), and compare it with utility supply capacity in site screening.

  • With a 10% compound annual WUE reduction, the need drops to 227-604 MGD.
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Energies (MDPI AG) 2026

Smart Reuse of Waste Heat from Data Centres: Energy and Exergy Analysis for a District-Heating Network in Bulgaria

Set data-centre setpoints (air temperature, free-cooling threshold) together with waste-heat sales: warmer setpoints and more free cooling cut cooling electricity by about 45% but also cut recoverable heat to about 45%.

  • Centralised DH heat pumps are cited as giving COP 3-5 for supply temperatures up to 70-80 °C.
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IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)) 2026

State-of-the-Art Power Electronics in AI Data Centers

In rack power templates, model PSU count per shelf and the 33 kW shelf limit for AC distribution, and check busbar, PDU and cooling impact together for racks that exceed 100 kW with several shelves.

  • AI rack density is 30-100+ kW against 7-10 kW for traditional racks; an 8-GPU DGX H100 draws around 10,200 W.

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