OK. Do you know what's the unit "CFM" of the airflow? Best bet for BTU I found was British Thermal Unit. I'm not familiar with this stuff so perhaps I need to do some more searching... Thanks.
I beileve the author meant 20,000-30,000 BTU. 2 tons of A/C is 24,000 BTU and 3 tons would be 36,000 BTU. That is likely a bit low. A single Dell rack about 1/2 full of say 2950 III servers rates at consuming over a ton of A/C.
Since the electricity consumed by the equipment directly correlates to heat output, you will typically need about 1 ton of A/C for every 3500-4000 watts of electricity you consume.
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The flowrate is the amount of air that's blown out of the fans in a certain period of time.
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I beileve the author meant 20,000-30,000 BTU. 2 tons of A/C is 24,000 BTU and 3 tons would be 36,000 BTU. That is likely a bit low. A single Dell rack about 1/2 full of say 2950 III servers rates at consuming over a ton of A/C.
Since the electricity consumed by the equipment directly correlates to heat output, you will typically need about 1 ton of A/C for every 3500-4000 watts of electricity you consume.