cooling costs

Summer utility bills

Cooling costs are the expenses of keeping spaces or systems at lower temperatures—typically air conditioning for buildings or refrigeration for industrial processes.

The term appears frequently in discussions of energy efficiency, climate change, and building management: As summers get hotter, cooling costs have skyrocketed.

In data centers, cooling costs can rival the electricity used by the computers themselves.

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