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In Search of an Energy Yardstick
Earlier this fall, Google made an announcement that in many ways foretells the future of data center efficiency metrics. The search giant not only disclosed its total power consumption and carbon emissions (mostly attributable to its data centers), but also released estimates of its per-user and per-search energy consumption. With this information -- and given that a billion Google searches occur per day -- it was possible to calculate that searches account for 12.5 million watts of the company's 260 million watt total.
By Mary Brandel | 31 January, 2012 04:59
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After PUE, Green Grid creates metrics for carbon and water
The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers, is developing two more metrics to address carbon emissions and water usage, it said Thursday.
By James Niccolai and Peter Sayer | 03 December, 2010 04:27
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Standard proposed for measuring data center efficiency
A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results.
By Nancy Gohring | 16 July, 2010 09:33
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US, Europe, Japan agree on data center efficiency metric
Industry groups and government agencies from the U.S., Europe and Japan have reached a basic agreement on how to measure the energy efficiency of data centers, they are expected to say on Monday.
By James Niccolai | 03 April, 2010 11:32
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Green Grid to release new data center efficiency tools
The Green Grid Consortium will release two free tools in the coming months to help companies measure and improve the energy efficiency of their data centers.
By James Niccolai | 05 February, 2010 09:10
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