Hot Ticket where EU gets priority, Google’s Data Center Summit 2011 in Zurich May 24

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 29 2011)

...sustainability and best practices Zahl Limbuwala, Chartered Institute for IT; Harkeeret Singh, The Green Grid 10:00 Best practice implementation case studies Joe Kava, Google; Dean Nelson, eBay ......entation case studies Joe Kava, Google; Dean Nelson, eBay 11:20 Panel discussion James Hamilton, Amazon; Robert Coupland, Telecity Group; Brian Waddell, Norman Disney and Young; Mark Eichenberger... (Read Full Article)

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Innovation Drives Data Center Change

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 21 2010) Cloud Computing

... year, and the pace of technical innovation in high-scale facilities continues to accelerate,” said James Hamilton, Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services. “It’s an exciting time to be part of our industry. ......e as a benchmark for improvement projects. The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric championed by The Green Grid has emerged as a key tool in designing more efficient data center buildings and systems. While stil... (Read Full Article)

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Stop Cooling the Data Center

Explore environmentalleader.com (Oct 15 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ee that data center temperatures are too low. “Running at 90F would save the world a lot of money,” James Hamilton said at the Google Data Center Summit in April of this year. “But no one is doing it because they a......s Bowman, Sacramento Bee – “Free cooling’ with fresh air makes McClellan Park data center greener”) The Green Grid says that in most cases, a fully developed air management ... (Read Full Article)

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PUE and Total Power Usage Efficiency (tPUE)

Explore Perspectives (Jun 14 2009) Servers

... Total Facility Power: The first issue is the definition of total facility power. The original Green Grid document defines total facility power as “power as measured at the utility meter”. This sounds fai......oad. PUE doesn’t measure the right thing in these cases.   PUE less than 1.0: In the Green Grid document, it says that “the PUE can range from 1.0 to infinity” and goes on to ... (Read Full Article)

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