An example of Carbon Reporting for Data Centers, HSBC

greenm3.com (Dec 2 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

1. Yesterday, I blogged on The Green Grid CUE metric. Will CUE be as popular as PUE? Don't think so Today the Green Grid announced the CUE metric, Carbon Usage Effectiveness metric to help measure the carbon impact of IT equipment. The carbon emissions divided by your IT load. Provides a ratio of kg/CO2/kWHr where the best is 0. Note you can be near zero with hydroelectric or nuclear power sourcing. Later in the day I had a chance to run into Christian Belady and clarified that I meant no disrespect to the idea of CUE as he was the editor for the document. I explained most of what I saw people say out there was reporting, but little discussion or analysis. Getting people to debate a topic is what gets the idea to spread. Christian is a forward thinker and said he is always open for debate ... (Read Full Article)

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