Table 2 Infrastructure components of the data centre included in the model

From: Using life cycle assessment to drive innovation for sustainable cool clouds

Data centre component

Equipment and parts models included

Building

• Site works (pads)

• Building core

• Building shell

Supporting equipment, mechanical

• Air-handling units

• Adiabatic cooler

• e-housea

Supporting equipment, electrical

• Generator

• Uninterruptible power supply and battery

• Power distribution unit

• Cables

• Bus plug and duct

• Transformer

IT equipment

• Compute server (excluding power supply unit)

• Storage server (JBODb + headnodes)

• Networking server

• Racks (air cooled)/tanks (immersion cooled)

  1. All data for the LCA model was collected per MW of IT capacity. aAn e-house is an environment-controlled skid unit that houses electrical components of the data centre47. bJBOD, which stands for just a bunch of disks or just a bunch of drives, is a storage architecture consisting of numerous disk drives inside a single storage enclosure.
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