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I'm considering using a Mineral-oil as a coolant for a submerged server. What fire precautions should I take?

I'm investigating different ways to safely and efficiently cool down one of our servers that uses two GPU cards for intense renderings that takes hours to complete. The overall system wattage is ...
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Assessing equipment damage following a lightning strike - Should I have planned more?

One of my client's sites received a direct lightning hit last week (coincidentally on Friday the 13th!). I was remote to the site, but working with someone onsite, I discovered a strange pattern of ...
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Calculating how Much Power is needed For Servers

How do I calculate how much power I need for my servers / switches / routers? This is needed when moving into a datacenter. I figure I should just add up the wattage on all the power supplies even ...