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Data center glossary
Plain-language definitions with real numbers. Free to cite with attribution.
24/7 carbon-free energy (24/7 CFE)
24/7 carbon-free energy is a sustainability standard requiring every megawatt-hour of electricity a facility consumes, in every hour of the day, to be matched with carbon-free generation from the same regional grid — a stricter bar than annual renewable-energy matching, which lets buyers offset nighttime fossil consumption with daytime solar surpluses elsewhere.
2N redundancy
2N redundancy means a data center installs two complete, independent systems, each capable of carrying the full load alone — effectively 100% duplication of UPS plants, generators, distribution paths, or cooling.
Additionality
Additionality is the principle that a renewable energy purchase should cause new clean generation capacity to be built, rather than simply reallocating credits from power plants that already existed.
AI factory
An AI factory is industry shorthand — popularized by Nvidia — for a purpose-built data center engineered end-to-end to turn electricity and data into AI training and inference output, rather than to host general-purpose enterprise workloads.
Availability zone (AZ)
An availability zone (AZ) is an isolated cluster of one or more physically separate data centers within a single cloud region, each with its own power, cooling and network path, so a failure in one AZ doesn't take down the others.
Bare metal
Bare metal is a dedicated physical server rented to a single customer with no virtualization layer imposed by the provider — the customer gets direct access to the hardware and full control of the operating system.
Behind-the-meter power
Behind-the-meter (BTM) power is electricity generated at or adjacent to the consumption site — on the customer's side of the utility meter — so it flows to the data center without passing through the public grid.
BESS (Battery Energy Storage System)
BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) is a grid-scale battery installation — almost always lithium-ion today — that stores electricity for peak shaving, time-of-use arbitrage, grid services and extended backup power, distinct from the smaller UPS strings inside a data hall.
BMS (Building Management System)
A building management system (BMS), also called a building automation system, is the control layer that monitors and operates a data center's mechanical and electrical plant — chillers, CRAC/CRAH units, generators, switchgear, and fire suppression — typically over protocols such as BACnet or Modbus.
Build-to-suit (BTS)
Build-to-suit (BTS) is a development model in which a data center developer constructs a facility to a specific tenant's requirements — location, capacity, density, cooling technology, and security specs — under a long-term lease signed before or during construction.
Busway (Busbar Trunking)
Busway, or busbar trunking, is a prefabricated metal enclosure carrying rigid copper or aluminum conductors that distributes power along a data hall in place of conventional cable trays and branch circuits.
C-rate
C-rate is a measure of how fast a battery charges or discharges relative to its rated energy capacity, expressed as a multiple of that capacity per hour: a 1C rate fully discharges a battery in one hour, 0.5C takes two hours, and 2C takes thirty minutes.
Cage (Colocation Cage)
A cage is a physically enclosed, lockable colocation space — typically wire-mesh partition walls with a dedicated locking door — that gives one customer exclusive floor-level access control within a shared data hall, sitting between a fully private suite and a shared cabinet in the security hierarchy.
Cap rate (capitalization rate)
Cap rate is the ratio of a property's annual net operating income to its market value or acquisition price, expressed as a percentage, used by investors to compare returns and risk across data center real estate deals.
Capacity Factor
Capacity factor is the ratio of the electricity a power plant actually generates over a period to what it would generate if it ran at full rated output the entire time, expressed as a percentage.
Carrier hotel
A carrier hotel is a highly interconnected, carrier-neutral facility — often a converted multi-story building in a major metro's core — where dozens of telecom carriers, ISPs and enterprises physically meet to exchange traffic, typically anchored around a meet-me room.
Carrier-neutral data center
A carrier-neutral data center is a facility whose owner does not favor or restrict access to any single telecommunications carrier, allowing tenants to choose freely among all network providers present in the building.
CDU (Coolant Distribution Unit)
A CDU (Coolant Distribution Unit) is the hardware module that separates a data center's facility water loop from the technology cooling loop, controlling the flow, pressure and temperature of coolant delivered to direct-to-chip cold plates or rear-door heat exchangers.
Colocation
Colocation is a service where a data center operator rents space, power, and cooling to customers who install and operate their own servers and network equipment.
Commissioning (Level 5 / IST)
Commissioning is the staged testing process that validates a data center's electrical and mechanical systems perform as designed before the facility is handed over to operations, following a five-level framework widely used across the industry and formalized in ASHRAE and Uptime Institute guidance.
Concurrently maintainable
Concurrently maintainable describes a data center design — the defining requirement of Uptime Institute Tier III — in which any single capacity component or distribution path for power or cooling can be shut down for planned maintenance or replacement without disrupting IT load.
CRAC / CRAH units
CRAC (computer room air conditioner) and CRAH (computer room air handler) units are the workhorses of data center air cooling.
Cross-connect
A cross-connect is a physical cable link — fiber or copper — run between two customers or between a customer and a carrier inside the same data center, typically routed through the meet-me room.
CUE (Carbon Usage Effectiveness)
CUE (Carbon Usage Effectiveness) is a sustainability metric that measures the CO2 emissions produced per unit of IT energy consumed in a data center, expressed in kgCO2e/kWh.
Curtailment
Curtailment is the deliberate reduction or halt of electricity generation or consumption below what would otherwise be available, usually ordered by a grid or transmission operator to keep supply and demand in balance in real time.
Dark fiber
Dark fiber is installed but unused (unlit) optical fiber that a customer leases and lights with its own transmission equipment, rather than buying a managed bandwidth service.
Data hall
A data hall is the raised-floor or slab room inside a data center building where server racks, network gear and cooling units are installed — distinct from the electrical yards, generator plant and office space around it.
DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management)
DCIM (data center infrastructure management) is software that monitors, measures, and manages a data center's physical infrastructure — power, cooling, space, and assets — bridging the gap between facilities and IT systems.
Dedicated substation
A dedicated substation is an electrical substation built and reserved for a single data center campus, stepping down transmission-voltage power (typically 66-500 kV) from the grid to the medium-voltage level a facility's switchgear can distribute, rather than sharing capacity with other industrial or residential customers.
Demand charge
A demand charge is a utility fee billed on the single highest 15- or 30-minute peak of power draw (kW) during a billing period, separate from the per-kWh energy charge for total consumption.
Demand response (load flexibility)
Demand response is a data center's ability to reduce or shift its electricity draw on request from a grid operator, acting like a "ghost battery" that absorbs grid stress instead of drawing on it during peak demand.
Digital twin (data center)
A digital twin is a continuously updated, real-time virtual replica of a data center's physical infrastructure — racks, power circuits, cooling systems, and floor layout — built from CAD/BIM design models and live sensor feeds pulled from DCIM and building-management systems.
Direct-to-chip cooling
Direct-to-chip (DTC) cooling circulates liquid coolant through cold plates mounted directly on the hottest components — CPUs, GPUs, and memory — removing 70-80% of server heat at the source while fans handle the remainder.
Economizer (Airside/Waterside Economizer)
An economizer is a cooling-system mode that uses outside air or water conditions directly, bypassing energy-intensive mechanical chillers whenever ambient temperature and humidity allow.
Edge data center
An edge data center is a smaller facility located close to end users or devices — in secondary cities, at network aggregation points, or at cell-tower sites — to minimize latency and backhaul costs.
ERE (Energy Reuse Effectiveness)
Energy Reuse Effectiveness (ERE) is a data center sustainability metric, developed by The Green Grid, that measures how much of a facility's total energy is reused elsewhere — for district heating, greenhouses, or adjacent buildings — rather than measuring pure efficiency the way PUE does.
Fault Tolerant
Fault Tolerant describes an infrastructure design in which the failure of any single component or distribution path continues to serve the critical load without interruption, because every capacity system is fully duplicated (2N or 2N+1) end to end.
FFO / AFFO (Funds From Operations)
FFO (Funds From Operations) is the standard REIT profitability metric defined by Nareit as net income plus real estate depreciation and amortization, minus gains on property sales — a proxy for cash flow that adjusts for the fact that GAAP depreciation overstates the economic decline in value of well-maintained data centers.
Firm power
Firm power is electricity supply that a generator or utility contractually guarantees to deliver on demand, regardless of weather or fuel conditions, as opposed to non-firm or intermittent supply that can be curtailed.
Free cooling (economizer cooling)
Free cooling is a technique that uses outside air or water temperature directly, or via a heat exchanger, to remove heat from a data hall's cooling loop without running mechanical refrigeration compressors, cutting cooling energy whenever ambient conditions are favorable.
Front-of-the-meter (FTM)
Front-of-the-meter (FTM) describes generation or energy-storage assets that connect directly to the utility grid and sell power or grid services into wholesale markets, rather than sitting on a customer's own side of the meter — the mirror image of behind-the-meter (BTM) systems that serve a single facility's private load.
GPU cloud
A GPU cloud is a cloud service that rents GPU compute capacity — for AI training, fine-tuning, inference, and rendering — billed per GPU-hour or via reserved contracts.
Greenfield development
Greenfield development is the construction of a data center on previously undeveloped land, as opposed to brownfield conversion of existing industrial buildings or expansion of operating campuses.
Grey space
Grey space is the area of a data center given over to mechanical and electrical support infrastructure — generators, switchgear, UPS and battery rooms, chiller plant, pumps and CDUs — as opposed to white space, the raised-floor or slab area that actually holds IT racks and generates rent.
Ground lease
A ground lease is a long-term agreement, typically 30 to 99 years, under which a data center developer leases raw land from its owner rather than buying it outright, then constructs and owns the building and equipment on top for the lease term.
HBM (High Bandwidth Memory)
HBM (high bandwidth memory) is a type of DRAM in which memory dies are stacked vertically and connected to the processor over a very wide interface through a silicon interposer, delivering far higher bandwidth than conventional DDR or GDDR memory.
Hot/cold aisle containment
Hot/cold aisle containment is a data center layout practice that physically separates cold supply air from hot exhaust air to prevent mixing and recirculation.
Hyperscale data center
A hyperscale data center is an extremely large facility built by or for major cloud and internet platforms — AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Alibaba, and peers — designed to scale to tens or hundreds of megawatts of IT load across standardized, software-managed infrastructure.
Immersion cooling
Immersion cooling submerges entire servers in a non-conductive dielectric fluid that absorbs heat directly from all components.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a high-throughput, low-latency networking standard used to interconnect servers and storage inside data centers, most commonly for high-performance computing and AI training clusters.
Interconnection
Interconnection is the direct exchange of traffic between networks, clouds, and enterprises inside or between data centers, bypassing the public internet for better performance, security, and cost.
Interconnection queue
An interconnection queue is the ordered backlog of grid-connection applications that a utility or transmission operator must study and approve before a new large power consumer, such as a data center, or a new generator can connect to the electricity grid.
Internet exchange (IX / IXP)
An internet exchange (IX or IXP) is a shared switching fabric where multiple networks — ISPs, content providers, CDNs, and enterprises — interconnect to exchange traffic directly, a practice called peering.
IRR (Internal Rate of Return)
Internal rate of return (IRR) is the discount rate at which the net present value of a data center investment's projected cash flows — construction outlays followed by lease income — equals zero, making it the standard metric investors use to compare the time-value-adjusted returns of competing development or acquisition deals.
IRU (Indefeasible Right of Use)
An IRU (Indefeasible Right of Use) is a long-term, non-cancellable right to use a specific amount of fiber capacity or dark fiber strands on a telecom route, typically for 15-25 years, without transferring ownership of the underlying cable.
IT load
IT load is the electrical power actually consumed by computing equipment — servers, storage, and network gear — measured in kW or MW, excluding cooling, power-conversion losses, and building systems.
kW per rack (rack density)
kW per rack, or rack density, is the amount of electrical power a data center delivers to a single cabinet, which in turn determines how much compute can be installed there.
Latency
Latency is the time it takes data to travel between two points on a network, usually measured in milliseconds as round-trip time (RTT).
LCOE (Levelized Cost of Electricity)
LCOE (Levelized Cost of Electricity) is the average cost per unit of electricity, usually expressed in $/MWh, that a generation asset must earn over its lifetime to cover capital cost, financing, operations and fuel, discounted to present value.
Levelized cost of storage (LCOS)
Levelized cost of storage (LCOS) is the average cost per unit of electricity a battery system discharges over its lifetime, expressed in $/MWh, calculated from upfront capital cost, financing, round-trip efficiency losses, degradation and augmentation spending, spread across every cycle the system performs.
Liquid cooling
Liquid cooling is the use of fluids instead of air to remove heat from IT equipment, exploiting the fact that water conducts heat roughly 25 times better than air and carries far more heat per unit volume.
Lit fiber
Lit fiber is a fiber-optic connection delivered with the provider's own transmission equipment already active on it, so the customer buys bandwidth — typically a 10G, 100G or 400G wavelength or Ethernet circuit — rather than the physical glass strands themselves.
Loan-to-value (LTV)
Loan-to-value (LTV) is the ratio of a loan amount to the appraised or projected value of the asset securing it, expressed as a percentage, and is a core underwriting metric in data center project financing.
Long-duration energy storage (LDES)
Long-duration energy storage (LDES) refers to storage technologies built to discharge continuously for roughly 8 to 100+ hours, well beyond the 1-4 hour discharge window that standard lithium-ion BESS systems are optimized for.
M&O Stamp of Approval (Uptime Institute)
The M&O Stamp of Approval is Uptime Institute's certification of a data center's operational practices — staffing levels, training, maintenance procedures, and preventive-maintenance planning — rather than its physical design or built infrastructure, which Tier Certification covers instead.
Meet-me room (MMR)
A meet-me room (MMR) is a secure, dedicated space inside a data center where telecommunications carriers, ISPs, cloud providers, and tenants physically interconnect their networks via cross-connects.
Micro data center
A micro data center is a self-contained, factory-integrated unit — often a single enclosure or container — that packages racks, UPS, cooling, fire suppression, security, and monitoring into a footprint of roughly 1-10 racks and 5-100 kW.
Microgrid
A microgrid is a localized power system — combining on-site generation such as gas turbines, fuel cells, solar or battery storage with its own control system — that can run a data center while connected to the utility grid or "island" itself and operate independently during an outage.
Modular data center
A modular data center is a facility built from prefabricated, factory-assembled power, cooling and IT modules that are shipped to site and connected together, rather than constructed entirely with on-site trades.
Monthly recurring charge (MRC / NRC)
Monthly recurring charge (MRC) is the ongoing monthly fee a colocation customer pays for space, power and cross-connects, typically billed per kW of committed power or per cabinet/rack, plus a separate non-recurring charge (NRC) — a one-time installation or setup fee — charged when the contract is signed.
N+1 redundancy
N+1 redundancy is a design approach in which a system has one more component than the minimum needed to carry the load: if N units are required, N+1 are installed.
Neocloud
A neocloud is a new generation of cloud provider focused almost exclusively on GPU compute for AI, in contrast to hyperscalers' broad service catalogs.
Net Absorption
Net absorption is a commercial real estate metric, adapted from office and industrial markets, that measures the net change in leased or contracted data center capacity — usually expressed in MW of IT load — within a given market over a defined period, tracking realized demand rather than announced supply.
NOI (Net Operating Income)
NOI, or net operating income, is the revenue a data center property generates from rent, power and cross-connect fees minus its operating expenses — utilities, maintenance, property management and insurance — before debt service, taxes, depreciation or capital expenditure are deducted.
NRC (Non-Recurring Charge)
A non-recurring charge (NRC) is a one-time fee billed at the start of a colocation or interconnection contract to cover setup work — cross-connect installation, cage or cabinet build-out, cabling, power circuit termination and initial provisioning — as distinct from the monthly recurring charge (MRC) that covers ongoing space, power and services.
NVLink
NVLink is NVIDIA's proprietary high-speed interconnect that links GPUs to each other (and to NVIDIA CPUs) at far higher bandwidth than PCIe, letting multiple GPUs pool memory and act as one large accelerator.
Open Compute Project (OCP)
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an industry consortium, launched by Facebook in 2011, that publishes open-source specifications for data center hardware — servers, racks, power shelves, network switches and, increasingly, liquid-cooling and rack-power architectures for AI clusters.
PDU (Power Distribution Unit)
A PDU (power distribution unit) is equipment that distributes electrical power to IT hardware in a data center.
Peering
Peering is the direct, typically settlement-free interconnection of two networks to exchange traffic between their respective customers, bypassing transit providers.
Point of Presence (PoP)
A Point of Presence (PoP) is a physical location — typically a rack or suite inside a carrier-neutral or colocation data center — where a network operator, cloud provider or CDN terminates its own infrastructure to connect with other networks and customers in that market.
Power factor
Power factor is the ratio of real power (kW) actually doing work to apparent power (kVA) drawn from the electrical supply, with the gap between them caused by the phase lag between voltage and current in inductive loads.
Powered Land
Powered land is a site an operator has secured with a confirmed grid connection and allocated electrical capacity, but with little or no data center construction started, so the value being sold or acquired is the megawatts of interconnection rather than finished building shell.
Powered shell
A powered shell is a data center building delivered with the core structure, secured utility power connection, and basic site infrastructure in place, but without the tenant-side fit-out — no UPS, generators, cooling plant, or racks.
PPA (Power Purchase Agreement)
A PPA (power purchase agreement) is a long-term contract — typically 10-20 years — under which a buyer commits to purchase electricity from a specific generation project at agreed prices.
Prelease
A prelease is a lease commitment signed for data center capacity before the facility is completed — sometimes before construction begins.
PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)
PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) is a ratio that measures data center energy efficiency by dividing total facility power by the power delivered to IT equipment.
Rack density
Rack density is the amount of IT power, measured in kW, drawn by a single rack — a market-trend concept distinct from the kW-per-rack unit definition, tracking how fast that figure is climbing as AI workloads replace conventional compute.
Rack unit (U)
A rack unit (U or RU) is the standard vertical measurement for equipment mounted in a data center rack, equal to 1.75 inches (44.45 mm).
Rail-optimized network
A rail-optimized network is a GPU cluster networking topology that connects the same-indexed NIC on every server to the same leaf switch, creating dedicated "rails" so multi-node GPU-to-GPU traffic reaches its destination in the fewest possible hops.
Raised floor
A raised floor is a data center flooring system of removable tiles (typically 60 x 60 cm) supported on pedestals 30-120 cm above the structural slab, creating a plenum used to distribute cold air through perforated tiles and to route power and network cabling.
RDHx (Rear-Door Heat Exchanger)
A rear-door heat exchanger (RDHx) is a liquid-cooled panel mounted on the back of a server rack that removes heat from IT equipment exhaust air before it re-enters the room, bridging traditional air cooling and full liquid cooling.
REC (Renewable Energy Certificate)
A Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) is a tradable instrument representing the environmental attributes of one megawatt-hour of electricity generated from a renewable source, letting a buyer claim renewable-energy use even though the physical electrons on a shared grid are indistinguishable from fossil generation.
REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust)
A REIT is a company that owns, operates, or finances income-producing real estate — including data centers — and is required to distribute at least 90% of taxable income to shareholders as dividends in exchange for favorable corporate tax treatment.
Remote hands
Remote hands is an on-site technical support service offered by colocation providers, where facility technicians perform physical tasks on a customer's equipment so the customer doesn't have to dispatch staff.
Retail colocation
Retail colocation is the sale of data center capacity in small increments — a single rack unit, quarter rack, full cabinet, or private cage — bundled with power, cooling, connectivity, and support services.
Round-trip efficiency (RTE)
Round-trip efficiency (RTE) is the share of electricity a battery energy storage system returns to the grid or load compared with what it took in to charge, expressed as a percentage.
Sale-leaseback
A sale-leaseback is a transaction in which a data center operator sells a facility it owns to an investor — typically a REIT, infrastructure fund or private equity buyer — and simultaneously signs a long-term lease to keep operating it, converting a capital asset into upfront cash while retaining operational control.
SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative)
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is an independent body that validates corporate greenhouse-gas reduction targets against the emissions cuts climate science says are needed to limit warming to 1.5°C, giving data center operators a third-party-verified way to back up net-zero claims.
Scope 1/2/3 Emissions
Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions are the three categories in the GHG Protocol accounting framework used to classify a company's greenhouse gas footprint.
Shovel-ready site
A shovel-ready site is a parcel of land that has cleared the permitting, zoning, environmental review and utility-interconnection steps needed to begin construction immediately, with no further approvals standing between purchase and groundbreaking.
SLA (Service Level Agreement)
An SLA (service level agreement) is the contractual commitment a data center or service provider makes about measurable service quality — most importantly power availability, but also cooling parameters, network uptime, and support response times.
Small Modular Reactor (SMR)
A Small Modular Reactor (SMR) is a nuclear fission reactor built well below the size of a conventional plant — typically under 300 MW per unit — designed for factory fabrication and phased on-site assembly, which hyperscalers are betting on for firm, carbon-free power that sidesteps years-long grid interconnection queues.
Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is an electrochemical device that converts a fuel — natural gas, biogas or increasingly hydrogen — directly into electricity through a chemical reaction rather than combustion, with no moving parts and none of the exhaust profile of a diesel generator.
Sovereign AI
Sovereign AI is a nation's capability to independently develop, train, and operate artificial intelligence models on domestically located, and often domestically owned or controlled, compute infrastructure, data, and talent, without primary dependency on foreign hyperscalers.
Sovereign cloud
A sovereign cloud is a cloud infrastructure and service offering built to keep a customer's data, operations and administrative access within a specific national or regional jurisdiction, run by entities meeting that jurisdiction's legal and personnel-residency requirements, so the data stays outside the reach of foreign laws such as the US CLOUD Act.
Stranded power
Stranded power is electrical capacity that exists but cannot be productively used or monetized — a growing theme on both sides of the data center market.
STS (Static Transfer Switch)
An STS is a solid-state switching device that transfers a load between two independent power sources — typically the A and B feeds of a dual-corded facility — in a few milliseconds when one source fails or drifts out of tolerance, fast enough that server power supplies never see an interruption.
Subsea cable (submarine cable)
A subsea cable (submarine cable) is a fiber-optic cable laid across an ocean or sea floor to carry internet and telecom traffic between countries and continents.
TIA-942
TIA-942 is an ANSI standard from the Telecommunications Industry Association that specifies requirements for data center infrastructure, covering site location, architecture, electrical and mechanical systems, cabling, and physical security.
Tier Certification (Uptime Institute)
Tier Certification is Uptime Institute's formal, third-party verification process confirming that a data center's design and/or built facility meets the infrastructure and redundancy requirements of a specific Tier level (I-IV) under its Tier Standard, distinct from an operator simply marketing a facility as 'Tier III-equivalent,' which carries no third-party validation.
Triple Net Lease (NNN)
A triple net lease (NNN) is a lease structure in which the tenant pays not only base rent but also property taxes, building insurance, and maintenance costs, shifting nearly all facility operating expenses from landlord to tenant.
Ultra Ethernet
Ultra Ethernet is an open networking standard developed by the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to connect GPUs and accelerators inside AI training and inference clusters, positioned as a higher-performance, more scalable alternative to proprietary fabrics like NVIDIA's InfiniBand.
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
A UPS (uninterruptible power supply) is a system that provides instant backup power to IT equipment when utility power fails or fluctuates, bridging the gap of typically 10-60 seconds until diesel generators start and stabilize.
Uptime Institute Tier levels (I-IV)
Uptime Institute Tier levels are a four-level classification of data center infrastructure resilience, from Tier I (basic capacity) to Tier IV (fault tolerant).
Vacancy rate
Vacancy rate is the share of a data center market's built, powered capacity — measured in MW or square feet — that is unleased and available for a new tenant to move into, as tracked quarterly by brokers such as CBRE, JLL and Cushman & Wakefield across primary markets.
VPPA (Virtual Power Purchase Agreement)
A VPPA is a financial contract in which a data center operator agrees to pay a fixed price for electricity generated by a specific renewable project — usually wind or solar — without physically taking delivery of that power; the generator sells its output into the wholesale market at the prevailing price, and the two parties settle the difference against the contracted strike price.
Waste Heat Reuse
Waste heat reuse is the practice of capturing the low-grade heat rejected by a data center's cooling systems and routing it to a productive use — typically a district heating network, greenhouse, or industrial process — instead of releasing it to outside air via cooling towers or dry coolers.
White space
White space is the raised-floor or slab area within a data center that houses IT equipment — server racks, network gear and storage — as distinct from "gray space," the mechanical and electrical plant such as chillers, UPS rooms and switchgear that supports it.
Wholesale colocation
Wholesale colocation is the leasing of large blocks of data center capacity, typically from about 250 kW up to entire multi-megawatt halls or buildings, to a single tenant under a long-term contract.
WUE (Water Usage Effectiveness)
WUE (Water Usage Effectiveness) measures data center water efficiency as liters of water consumed per kilowatt-hour of IT energy (L/kWh).
Yield on cost (YoC)
Yield on cost (YoC) is a real estate development metric that measures a data center's projected stabilized net operating income (NOI) as a percentage of its total development cost, including land, powered shell, electrical and mechanical infrastructure, and fit-out combined.
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