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Data Center Power Calculators

Rack PDU capacity, UPS runtime and PUE — the three numbers that decide how much equipment a cabinet can actually carry.

Power is the constraint that binds first in almost every modern deployment. A cabinet with 42U of space routinely runs out of amps at half that, and the arithmetic that gets you there is easy to state and easy to get wrong: apparent power versus real power, the 80% continuous-load derate, and the fact that two feeds buy availability rather than capacity. These calculators cover the whole chain from breaker rating to usable kilowatts.