Microsoft: Green IT Means More Than a Low PUE

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1. Power Usage Effectiveness has become the de facto standard for green IT around the world, but a new white paper from Microsoft says that PUE shouldn't be the only focus of an IT department. PUE -- the ratio of a data center's energy use that goes to computing instead of HVAC or lighting -- was developed by The Green Grid to move the IT industry toward more efficient operations. But according to Dileep Bhandarkar, a Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Global Foundation Services, PUEs can be a misleading figure because it is inconsistenly reported. In the white paper, Bhandarkar lays out some "non-intuitive" changes that Microsoft made to one of its sites over a three-year period, including painting the roof white and improving air flow by shifting concrete walls around AC units. Those changes, along with other projects, led to a 25 percent reduction in the site's ... (Read Full Article)

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