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Rack Power Density

The electrical load per IT rack, measured in kW. Traditional enterprise racks run roughly 5-15 kW; GPU clusters commonly reach 40-100 kW per rack, with some cabinets exceeding 100 kW, driving liquid cooling and far heavier upstream transformer and switchgear capacity.

Standard/Reference

ASHRAE TC 9.9 thermal guidelines; Uptime Institute research

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