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by jwiz 515 days ago
Wait until you hear about the units they use for cooling.
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BTU?

Or Watt, too?

Nowadays, it's true they usually use watts.

But not too long ago (and still very common in office-building server rooms) they use "tons of refrigeration", which takes its name from the amount of power it takes to phase change a ton of water in 1 day. It is 12k BTU/h.