DC II Lab- DC Calculators - Part 1

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Data Center II Lab – DC Calculators Purpose: Become familiar with the factors that influence the cost of building a Data Center and improving its energy efficiency  Lab 1 - Data Center Calculators Navigate to the APC web site and go to the TradeOff Tools calculators in the support area of the web site: https://www.se.com/ww/en/work/solutions/for-business/data-centers-and-networks/ trade-off-tools/ 2. Note below five or more of the list of calculators that are available______________________ Data Center Design Planning Calculator 3. Select the link for the Data Center Design Planning Calculator https://designportal.apc.com/dcrdselector/ https://www.se.com/ww/en/work/solutions/system/s1/data-center-and-network-systems/trade- off-tools/data-center-capital-cost-calculator/
4. Input the following values in the calculator (observing the Data Center cost impact as you change the values) a. Initial IT load: 1000 KW b. Range of final IT load: 1.5 MW to 2.5 MW b. System redundancy: 2N power & cooling c. Cooling architecture: Row-based CRAH / chiller & tower e. Leave all other values as defaults 5. What is the resulting Data Center Day 1 Capex and Total Capex (NPV) Scaled and Upfront costs in millions of US dollars? _______________________________ 6. Click on the Growth Plan, TCO Details, and Yearly Costs tabs- noting what appears on the right. After clicking on the “Yearly Costs” tab, what is the year one and year ten total yearly costs in millions of US dollars for the “scaled” values? Note: You can just interpolate from the Y-axis scale to get an approximate value. _______________________________
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