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DATACENTERTWIN LEARN · INTERACTIVE ENGINEERING LAB

Learn Data Center Engineering
by Building and Breaking One

Use the real DataCenterTwin workstation to design, simulate, diagnose and prove an improvement. Ten focused labs. One open-ended 1 MW challenge.

Understand → Build → Run → Break → Observe → Diagnose → Fix → Prove

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Foundations

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NOT STARTED · 15–25 min

Build Your First Data Center

Build a powered, cooled four-rack facility from an empty room.

What you will learn
  • Build the utility → UPS → PDU → rack hierarchy.
  • Distinguish installed equipment demand from capacity ratings.
  • Assign cooling and resolve design errors.
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NOT STARTED · 15–30 min

A/B Power Redundancy

Keep the original rack online when UPS-A fails. Build two independent paths with adequate headroom.

What you will learn
  • Distinguish dual cords from independent supply.
  • Trace both upstream paths.
  • Size the surviving path for transferred demand.

Suggested prerequisites: Build Your First Data Center. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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NOT STARTED · 15–30 min

Find the Hidden Single Point of Failure

Identify the shared upstream component, then repair the false redundancy.

What you will learn
  • Find a dependency hidden behind A/B labels.
  • Use topology evidence to diagnose a single point of failure.
  • Prove independence after the repair.

Suggested prerequisites: A/B Power Redundancy. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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NOT STARTED · 15–30 min

UPS Battery & Generator Failover

Bridge a utility outage with battery energy, transfer to the generator within 25 seconds, and retain at least 20% SOC.

What you will learn
  • Separate temporary battery support from sustainable supply.
  • Relate transfer delay to battery autonomy.
  • Observe generator load acceptance.

Suggested prerequisites: Find the Hidden Single Point of Failure. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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Engineering Labs

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Air Cooling & Hot/Cold Aisles

Repair insufficient airflow and reduce the worst inlet temperature without reducing the original IT load.

What you will learn
  • Relate supply airflow to rack inlet temperature.
  • Explore containment and recirculation.
  • Separate cooling capacity from delivered airflow.

Suggested prerequisites: Find the Hidden Single Point of Failure. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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NOT STARTED · 15–30 min

AI Rack & Liquid Cooling

Deploy at least 120 kW of AI equipment in rack-1 and supply an effective hybrid liquid/air cooling path.

What you will learn
  • Build a CDU/pump/branch cooling path.
  • Relate flow and temperature rise to transported heat.
  • Retain air cooling for residual heat.

Suggested prerequisites: Find the Hidden Single Point of Failure. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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NOT STARTED · 15–30 min

AI Workload Ramp

Run the AI rack from 30% to 100% workload and maintain the required thermal and service limits.

What you will learn
  • Observe dynamic power/thermal coupling.
  • Separate commanded workload from delivered service.
  • Tune capacity and controls for full workload.

Suggested prerequisites: AI Rack & Liquid Cooling. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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NOT STARTED · 15–30 min

CDU Failure Diagnosis

Observe CDU-A loss, identify the initiating fault, then restore heat rejection and prove recovery from 90 s onward.

What you will learn
  • Distinguish circulation from heat removal.
  • Trace cause, temperature response and protection.
  • Prove recovery using service and temperature evidence.

Suggested prerequisites: AI Rack & Liquid Cooling. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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NOT STARTED · 15–30 min

N-1 Resilience

Make the critical rack survive each required UPS/PDU loss using sustainable supply, and establish the matching Design Intent.

What you will learn
  • Define the boundary of an N-1 claim.
  • Distinguish battery ride-through from sustainable redundancy.
  • Connect requirements to current evidence.

Suggested prerequisites: Find the Hidden Single Point of Failure; Air Cooling & Hot/Cold Aisles. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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NOT STARTED · 15–30 min

Digital Commissioning & Red Team

Observe the initial distribution weakness, author a meaningful commissioning test, repair the design, and rerun the required Red Team family.

What you will learn
  • Write acceptance criteria before testing.
  • Inspect failure evidence and repair a specific weakness.
  • Re-run commissioning and adversarial tests on the same revision.

Suggested prerequisites: N-1 Resilience; UPS Battery & Generator Failover. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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Capstone

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NOT STARTED · 90–180 min

Design a 1 MW AI Data Center

Start empty. Deliver at least 1 MW installed and served IT capacity at full workload. Choose your own air or hybrid architecture and prove the defined requirements.

What you will learn
  • Develop an architecture against explicit acceptance requirements.
  • Prove full-load service, thermal limits and sustainable electrical N-1.
  • Present commissioning and adversarial evidence with model limitations.

Suggested prerequisites: N-1 Resilience; Digital Commissioning & Red Team; AI Workload Ramp. Use Skip prerequisites to enter directly.

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Facility fundamentalsPower redundancyAir coolingLiquid coolingAI infrastructureN-1Commissioning