2. Categories

      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

  3. About The Green Grid

    The Green Grid

    The Green Grid.  The data center has changed considerably through the decades as the evolution of information technology has enabled it to become the critical nerve center of today’s enterprise. The number of data center facilities has increased over time as business demands increase, and each facility houses a rising amount of more powerful IT equipment. Data center managers around the world are running into limits related to power, cooling, and space - and the rise in demand for the important work of data centers has created a noticeable impact on the world’s power grids. The efficiency of data centers has become an important topic of global discussion among end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies.

    When a standard set of measurements are adopted by the industry, it will be easier for end-users to manage their facilities and equipment to achieve optimal energy efficiency. The members of The Green Grid have taken up the challenge of developing standards to measure data center efficiency, which includes both the facility and the IT equipment inside of it.

  1. The Green Grid

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    3. The Green Quotient

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      ...t among these are Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE). Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy-efficiency data centers, has deve...... developing a clear and well-defined language for energy-efficiency metrics.” Organizations such as the Green Grid are in the process of further refining PUE calculations so that the power consumed by equipment and... (Read Full Article)

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    4. 5 green data center tips from eBay's Project Mercury

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    5. European Data Center Association to Launch at Data Centers Europe 2012

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    7. Cool like Facebook: Where does free cooling make sense?

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    8. Iceland Exports Energy as Data

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    9. Making the web more efficient, a thousand servers at a time

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    10. Green Grid Launches Online Tool To Measure Data Centre Efficiency

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    11. Managing Your PUE

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      Managing Your PUE Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is simply the ratio of total data center energy consumption to the amount of energy consumed by the IT equipment alone. Since the data center’s primary purpose is to supply IT resources to a company or consumers, an ideal PUE is 1.0: all energy consumed by the data center goes to the IT equipment. That would mean no energy is used or lost in ... (Read Full Article)

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    12. Humidity in the Data Center: Do We Still Need to Sweat It?

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    13. Google: Our PUE is Lower, and It’s Scrupulous

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    14. Data Center Pue – What does it mean?

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