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Power Usage Effectiveness 2 – The Sequel
Data Center Knowledge (Jun 1 2011)
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Julius Neudorfer is the CTO and founder of North American Access Technologies, Inc. and has been involved with designing data center infrastructure since 1987. He is also the founder of THINK8760.org which is focused on improving data center energy efficiency.
With any popular movie, there is usually a sequel. It looks like the rise in popularity of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric has followed the same path. PUE has clearly become the most popularly quoted data center metric lately, perhaps in some cases if only as misguided marketing tool.
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