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The Green Grid’s PUE 2.0 White Paper

In “Recommendations for Measuring and Reporting Overall Data Center Efficiency,” IT industry coalition The Green Grid lays out the details of a new, more detailed version of the Green Grid’s Power Usage Effectiveness ratio for measuring data center energy efficiency.

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Task Force recommends a metric for measuring data center efficiency

Industry and government have put a premium on data center energy efficiency, frequently using energy efficiency metrics. But the metrics haven’t always been applied clearly and consistently.

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Solar energy crops will get lower price

William Huth, a 74-year-old cash crop farmer near Guelph, is a big believer in green energy.

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Green Grid provides 4 measures for data center efficiency

Yesterday saw the release of new guidelines that should help datacenter managers bring their power use under control. The recommendations were released by the Green Grid, an organization dedicated to improving datacenter efficiency, and they focus on a measure of performance called Power Usage Effectiveness, or PUE. PUE is meant to reflect how much of a datacenter’s energy consumption is going …

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Task Force recommends a metric for measuing data center efficiency

Industry and government have put a premium on data center energy efficiency, frequently using energy efficiency metrics. But the metrics haven’t always been applied clearly and consistently.

More: continued here