Lower Your PUE

Processor.com (Jun 18 2010) Servers

1. What Steps You Should Take To Reduce Energy Consumption. The IT community has known for a while that for every dollar most data centers spend on server hardware, another dollar gets spent on cooling that hardware. In terms of PUE (power usage effectiveness), this gets a value of 2. (Recall that PUE equals total facility power divided by IT equipment power, with 1 being considered a “perfect” score wherein all data center power would be consumed by IT hardware.) As energy costs continue to rise and the environment’s carbon tolerance recedes, there’s every incentive to lower data centers’ PUE values as much as possible. Here we focus on how to reduce those PUE scores in the first place. (Read Full Article)

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