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raised floors in general are a nightmare for grounding/bonding/differences in potential between racks, the steel floor structure, the building, and electrical conduits.

there's a reason why almost nobody builds them new from a clean-sheet-of-paper design anymore for serious datacenter applications or ISP/telecom purposes, which are racks/cabinet on concrete slab and everything overhead now.

it's much easier to ground/bond everything together using some very fat copper cables run along ladder rack overhead, and bond all the racks to that.



Raised floors where a great way to create laminar flow for clean rooms. I suspect that as with manufacturing, the "clean" space is inside the computers now.




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