glossary category

See rack, air-cooled

See electronics, air-cooled

See data center, air- and liquid-cooled

Air entering a space from an air-conditioning, heating, or ventilating apparatus

Air extracted from a space and totally or partially returned to an air conditioner, furnace, or other heat source

Airflow that passes through the IT or data communications equipment

Air treated to control its temperature, relative humidity, purity, pressure, and movement

Air (typically for the purposes of cooling) that passes through a cabinet housing data communications equipment

Air diverted around a cooling coil in a controlled manner for the purpose of avoiding saturated discharge air. On an equipment room scale, bypass air can also refer to the supply air that short-cycles around the load and returns to the air handler without producing effective cooling at the load

Where the air space below a raised floor or above a suspended ceiling is used to recirculate information technology equipment room/information technology equipment area environmental air, the wiring shall conform to Article 645 of NFPA 70, National Electrical Code