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Data Center Design:
Construction,
Container,
Data Center Outages,
Monitoring,
Power and Cooling
Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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Green Data Centres: A Quest For PUE-rity
Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 26 2010) Servers
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The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric is the de facto measurement when it comes to the efficiency of data centres, but its days could be numbered.
The news earlier this month that the UK Environment Agency will be one of the first customers of Capgemini’s new Merlin data centre, which boasts a PUE of just 1.08, is the most recent evidence of the metric’s preeminence – but moves are still afoot to supersede it.
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