What Does Ambient Temperature Mean?
Ambient temperature is a measure of the temperature around a given asset or piece of equipment or other object. In IT, ambient temperature refers controls on cooling required to keep an optimal temperature around high-performance equipment, such as servers or data centers.
Techopedia Explains Ambient Temperature
In a data center, ambient temperature is often maintained by large-scale cooling systems that cool the entire data center facility, where the centralized server racks often work 24/7 providing computing capacity to customers over the global Internet.