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Plan a fictional data centre.
Choose a workload, location and cooling approach. Then compare the energy, water and community trade-offs.
This is a guided comparison, not an engineering calculator or an assessment of a real development.
Data Centre Decision Lab
What would you need to know?
1 of 4
- 01 Workload
- 02 Place
- 03 Cooling
- 04 Resources
Your trade-off profile
A design claim is only the beginning.
Terms used below:PUEWUE
Power Usage Effectiveness compares all electricity used by a facility with the electricity used by its computing equipment. Lower overhead can improve PUE, but PUE does not measure total emissions or whether the computing work is efficient.
Water Usage Effectiveness compares site water use with the energy used by computing equipment. Its meaning depends on the measurement boundary and does not show whether the water is scarce, potable or recycled.
What your choices suggest
What they do not prove
Ask the developer
Open the Evidence Trail
The prototype uses directional relationships, not engineering predictions. Its Australian policy frame is theAustralian Government’s expectations for data-centre and AI-infrastructure developers.
Rosie’s illustration was created with AI assistance. The fictional facility graphic is illustrative and does not represent a real data centre.