Reply to post: Re: @Alan Brown

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful

Steve the Cynic

Re: @Alan Brown

Be careful when talking about calories.

There are "physics" calories, defined as 1 calorie to raise 1 gram of water by 1 degC.

There are "diet" calories, defined as 1000 "physics" calories. Usually on food packaging they are annotated as kcal, but they can also be annotated as Calories. kCal, however is just wrong.

Stick with kW. That way nobody knows what you are talking about, but everyone knows that they don't know. If you talk about calories, everyone knows that they *do* know, and *all* of them are wrong.

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