Data Center Energy: PUE, Cooling, Power Capacity & Carbon
Run the energy numbers of a data centre hands-on: IT load and kWh, PUE and DCiE, stranded rack power, cooling tons, N+1 and 2N UPS capacity, savings and payback of PUE projects, location- and market-based carbon with CUE, and AI rack density against capacity, every cell checked live.
The first lesson is free — no account needed.
About this course
A data center energy course that runs the numbers of one fictional colocation site in a spreadsheet, for facility and operations engineers, IT and sustainability teams and students. You turn rack counts and average draw into IT load and annual kWh, calculate monthly and period PUE and DCiE from the meters and see why summer cooling pushes PUE up, find stranded power per rack row and the UPS capacity still free to sell, convert heat loads into BTU/h and tons of refrigeration and size cooling units with a redundant spare, size UPS modules for N, N+1, 2N and 2(N+1), price the savings and payback of PUE projects, report location-based and market-based carbon and CUE and forecast AI and GPU rack density against capacity. Tabellab is not affiliated with The Green Grid or the Uptime Institute. The first lab is free.
Lessons
- IT Load to Annual Energy: kW, kWh & Load FactorFree
- PUE & DCiE: How Much Energy Reaches the IT? Pro
- Power Capacity per Rack & Stranded Capacity Pro
- Cooling Load: kW, BTU/h & Tons of Refrigeration Pro
- UPS Redundancy: N, N+1, 2N & Installed Capacity Pro
- Energy Cost & Savings from a Better PUE Pro
- Carbon: Location-Based, Market-Based & CUE Pro
- GPU & AI Racks: Density Growth vs Power Capacity Pro