Data Center Thermal Management

Thermal management for GPU-dense data centers—HVAC removes heat, it doesn’t create cold. Airflow modeling, hot aisle containment, and cooling math.

HVAC Doesn't Create Cold — It Removes Heat

This is the first of a series of URE articles about thermal management in data center environments—not theory, not “best practices,” but what actually happens when heat meets physics and scale. Here’s a simple puzzle from two idle machines. ai01 — home lab, Threadripper 32-core with 2× NVIDIA GPUs (NVLink), rack-level liquid cooling loop, used for ML training and vLLM inference: Tctl: +33.0°C Tccd1: +33.2°C Tccd5: +31.5°C nj01 — third-party datacenter (colo), Ryzen 12-core, air-cooled: ...