Datacentre power metric meets with resistance (vnunet.com)

Jack Clark, V3.co.uk , Thursday 28 January 2010 at 15:10:00 Power usage effectiveness is a useful metric, but its use in the public sphere can inflate its importance and encourage misconceptions, argues Jack Clark Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a powerful term because it gives a ballpark reading of the efficiency with which a datacentre consumes electricity. It is also a young term. It began …