... for connecting the infrastructure with the customer, a payback period shorter than 2 years is found for a hot water generation system for a base case assuming a 10-MW data center (DC) in Philadelphia, PA, when carbon (reduction) credits are included. Chilled water generation is found to be economically...

... the thermal efficiency of data centers using a simulation-based approach. Here, simulation is used to model and optimize a proposed research data center for use as an environment to test equipment and investigate best practices and strategies such as containment and hybrid cooling. The optimization technique...