Why AI/GPU data centers are a distinct engineering discipline — power, cooling, and network fabric as one interacting system.
NFPA 76, ASHRAE TC9.9, Uptime Institute Tiers, and NEC Article 645.
Utility service through UPS, PDUs, and busway distribution to the rack.
Rear-door heat exchangers, direct-to-chip, immersion cooling, and CDU architecture.
InfiniBand vs. RoCE, leaf-spine topology, and physical layout implications.
From GPU server specs to a completed PDU circuit schedule.
Worked examples — UPS sizing, voltage drop, and generator step-load.
Worked examples — cooling tons, liquid/air split, CDU flow rate.
Utility interconnection studies and on-site generation as a capacity bridge.
N+1 vs. 2N architecture and the cost/availability tradeoff.
One-line diagrams, cooling P&IDs, rack elevations, and white-space plans.
Field practices, leak-detection installation, and load-bank testing.
DCIM point design, real-time PUE/WUE, and capacity planning data.
9 real diagnostic scenarios with symptoms, diagnosis, and resolution.
PUE, WUE, and CUE calculation, and building a defensible efficiency report.
Retrofitting a 5 MW enterprise colo to support a 60 kW/rack liquid-cooled AI tenant.
A 150 MW greenfield AI training campus with on-site substation and generation.
A 500 kW edge inference facility co-located at a telecom central office.
Converting an air-cooled 2 MW hall to direct-to-chip liquid cooling.
A modular 1 MW facility using prefabricated power/cooling skids.
An 800 kW research cluster built into existing campus infrastructure.
A 300 kW private cluster for proprietary training inside corporate IT space.
A purpose-built multi-tenant facility with shared central utility plant.
12 real project templates — rack power/cooling schedule, PDU circuit schedule, CDU commissioning checklist, leak-detection test report, PUE/WUE calculation worksheet, generator load-bank test report, DCIM alarm response runbook, capacity planning worksheet, as-built documentation checklist, change order, RFI, and punch list. Available for download from Module 24 (Professional Documentation) once you've unlocked the program.
Coming later: CAD blocks, DCIM vendor integration guides, and video demonstrations. Not included in this release.