Glossary/Index
acre-foot
A unit of volume used to measure water; the amount of water needed to cover one acre of land (43560 square feet) to a depth of one foot. One acre-foot is equivalent to about 1,233 m³.
air cooling
A data center cooling method that uses exclusively air conditioning systems to circulate cool air over hardware to dissipate heat.
chiller
A machine that removes heat from a liquid coolant through vapor-compression, adsorption refrigeration, or absorption refrigeration cycles.
colocation center
Sometimes shortened to colo, a type of data center that rents out equipment, space, and bandwidth to retail customers, as opposed to single-tenant hyperscale data centers.