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Demand response is a customer or aggregator program that reduces load in response to price, reliability events, or dispatch signals. Critical data center load is hard to curtail, but batteries, cooling thermal inertia, backup systems, or flexible compute may create limited opportunities.
Cultural resources review evaluates potential impacts to historic, archaeological, tribal, or culturally significant resources. It can be triggered by federal permits, funding, land disturbance, or local rules.
Read definition →Tier I is basic capacity infrastructure with limited redundancy and likely site-wide shutdowns for maintenance or repair. It is usually not suitable for mission-critical hyperscale or AI loads without additional mitigations.
Read definition →Computer Room Air Handler moves air across chilled-water coils to cool data center spaces. CRAH systems depend on chilled-water infrastructure and are common in larger facilities where centralized cooling plants are used.
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