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Containment

Physically separating hot and cold air (cold-aisle, hot-aisle, or chimney) so cooling air is not wasted by mixing.

Current numbers

67 daysPonemon 2026 insider incident containment duration (2025 observations); detection excludedas of 2026 · register ↗
~30–50 kWin-row cooler capacity per cooling unit (Liebert CRV CR032–CR050); kW per rack depends on unit-to-rack ratio, containment and air conditionsas of 2025 · register ↗
241 daysIBM 2025 data-breach identification plus containment: both stages combinedas of 2025 · register ↗

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