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One of the HVAC most energy-demanding applications is designing a data center. In the current environment and with rapid advancement of technology the need for designing and maintaining data centers can be felt more than ever. A computer room, server room, IT room, or data center is a dedicated space for locating computer systems which handles a large quantity of data such as telecommunications and storage systems.

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Khazaii, J. (2016). Data Centers. In: Advanced Decision Making for HVAC Engineers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33328-1_3

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