"those air vents are smoke inlet vents in the board room"
No need for that, just lock the doors and ensure that the inert gas fire suppression system has an outlet in there.... After all, smoke damage is hell to clean up.
And it's in there because they saw all that space being used for computers and decided they'd have it for the boardroom - relegating all the servers (and IT staff) to an unventilated space situated in the basement under the toilets.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
