Data Center Cooling – Made Simple and Interesting: One of the Most Important Aspects of Data Center Operations - Couverture souple

Nair, Rashmi

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798182142946

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The book that finally explains what nobody told you about the engine room of the digital world.
Every day, you use dozens of services that depend on something you have never been asked to think about. Your medical records, your bank transactions, your video calls, your navigation, your streaming, your messages — all of it lives in buildings full of computers that are, at this very moment, running hot. Dangerously, expensively, consequentially hot.
And someone has to deal with that heat.
Data Center – Cooling – Made Simple and Interesting is the first book written for the intelligent general reader that takes this subject seriously — not as a technical manual, not as a dry engineering reference, but as a genuinely compelling story about physics, engineering ingenuity, geography, water, carbon, and the remarkably human profession that keeps the digital world from melting.
Author Rashmi Nair brings to this subject something rare: the ability to make hard physics feel intuitive, to make infrastructure feel urgent, and to make the invisible visible without ever losing either the rigour or the readability that the subject demands. From the transistor's dirty secret to the Arctic data centres that run without chillers, from the cascade failure that starts with a bearing seizure and ends in a boardroom, to the microfluidic channels etched into silicon that represent the frontier of what cooling can become — every chapter rewards the reader with the specific satisfaction of understanding something important that most people will never know.
This is a book for engineers who want to see their field through fresh eyes. For technology professionals who use cloud infrastructure every day and have never been invited to think about what it physically is. For policy makers and regulators grappling with the water, energy, and carbon implications of the data centre boom. For students considering where to invest a career's worth of curiosity and skill. And for anyone who finds, when the curtain is pulled back on how the world actually works, that the view is more interesting than they expected.
The servers run hot. The cooling runs cold. The story between those two facts is one of the great untold engineering stories of our time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798182142946
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 255
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg