Topic guide

Operations

Explore publications on data centre operations, maintenance, monitoring and routine technical processes. Review operational guidance in the context of your facility’s equipment, responsibilities and procedures.

Sources
232
Downloadable PDFs
47
Years
2002–2027

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145–168 / 232

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Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (ACM) 2024

The Sunk Carbon Fallacy: Rethinking Carbon Footprint Metrics for Effective Carbon-Aware Scheduling

Keep embodied-carbon amortisation (TE x T/EL) in procurement, refresh and design-option comparisons, and use operational carbon only for runtime placement and scheduling recommendations.

  • Scheduling by SCI raised datacenter carbon by nearly 30%; the penalty was over 15% at 40-80% utilisation.
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arXiv preprint (University of Alberta) 2026

To Defer or To Shift? The Role of AI Data Center Flexibility on Grid Interconnection

In large-load interconnection negotiation, present AI load flexibility (a deferral window of up to about 3 hours) as a lever for interconnection capacity and timing; returns diminish beyond 3 hours.

  • In the IEEE 14-bus study, data centres on buses connected to congested lines benefit most from geographic load shifting.
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Frontiers in Toxicology (Frontiers Media SA) 2026

Toxicological and environmental evaluation of the two-phase immersion cooling fluid HFO-153-10mczz-E

When selecting a two-phase immersion fluid, add toxicology and occupational exposure limit (here WEEL 200 ppm) to the specification alongside boiling point (40-60 °C), dielectric strength, non-flammability and material compatibility.

  • HFO-153-10mczz-E meets the OECD structural definition of a PFAS and falls in the short-chain PFAS category.
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arXiv preprint (Nanyang Technological University / NVIDIA AI Technology Center) 2025

Transforming Future Data Center Operations and Management via Physical AI

For fast what-if analysis consider a CFD-trained surrogate (inference about 0.01 s), but state that the surrogate is only as accurate as the CFD it was trained on and is not validated against measurements.

  • The CapEx of building a data centre with 100k B200 GPUs is 4.5 to 5 billion US dollars and annual electricity OpEx can reach 400 million.
White paperFree to read

Eaton 2018

What You Need to Know About Arc Flash

Add arc-flash attributes per switchboard (available fault current, clearing time, maintenance-mode/ZSI availability, working distance) and compute incident energy per IEEE 1584 for line and load side.

  • NFPA 70E 130.5(G): the incident energy analysis must be updated at least every 5 years.

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