Hot-aisle to liquid: a retrofit playbook for legacy enterprise data centers

For enterprise teams sitting on a 5–15MW air-cooled estate that needs to host AI inference: a sequenced retrofit plan from hot-aisle containment through DTC, with the structural, plumbing, and operational gating items most teams underestimate.

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