Based on information from all the leading datacom (data center and telecommunication) equipment manufacturers, this book provides datacom equipment power trend charts to allow the datacom facility designer to more accurately predict the datacom equipment loads that the facility can expect to have to accommodate in the future. It includes an overview of various air and liquid cooling system options that may be considered to handle the future loads. Extract from the table of contents: introduction and background; load trends and their application; liquid cooling of computer equipment. In the appendices: a collection of terms and definitions used by the datacom equipment manufacturers, the facilities operation industry, and the cooling design and construction industry; additional trend chart information; electronics, semiconductors, microprocessors.