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The Server Room Blog by Winston Saunders The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric is an excellent metric for overall data center efficiency. As a result of standardization and clarification of the metric by The Green Grid, it has become the de facto metric for data center efficiency. A recent whitepaper, TrendPoint Systems advocates breaking the Total Facility Power consumption into [...]
Podcast – Energy Efficiency Markets Podcast By Lisa Cohn
by Arthur Cole, IT Business Edge Arthur Cole spoke with Bob Hunter, CEO of Trendpoint. Critics of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) benchmark are quick to point out that it does not necessarily provide a complete picture of overall efficiency. By focusing on overall consumption, the standard does little to point out particular trouble spots within the infrastructure. [...]
By Heather Clancy Summary: You’ve doubtless heard of the power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric touted by the Green Grid, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and others interested in the greening of data centers. That’s the ratio that figures out how much facilities and cooling infrastructure is needed for corresponding technology infrastructure. Well, now one company is [...]
Trendpoint Systems has released a new whitepaper that it says will help companies better comply with the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards. As reported on The Data Center Journal, Trendpoint’s “Micro PUE: The Key to Data Center Energy Savings” white paper proposes a major supplement to the Micro PUE metric. “The new EPA requirements are [...]