Data center power consumption and savings

MUST READ EPA finishes draft report on data center power consumption ARTICLE - The Environmental Protection Agency has completed its study of data center power consumption and is soliciting public comments before it issues a final report to Congress in June. Data center shaves 10% off yearly electric bill ARTICLE - San Francisco-based 365 Main data center saved $70,000 off its annual electrici bill by participating in PG&E's Critical Peak Pricing program. RMI: Reduce data center power consumption through better engineering INTERVIEW - Chief Executive Officer of the Rocky Mountain Institute says companies need to reduce data center power consumption through better engineering in this interview. Measuring server energy efficiency TIP - Increasing power densities and soaring energy costs make measuring the energy efficiency of servers more important than ever.

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	Hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment and plenum strategies go big-time SearchDataCenter.com | 08 Jul 2008 ARTICLE - Hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment is a new data center design strategy to improve energy efficiency by preventing the mixing of hot and cold air in a data center.

	IBM to sell building-block, containerized data centers SearchDataCenter.com | 11 Jun 2008 ARTICLE - Now that IBM has a data center in a shipping container -- much like those from Sun and Rackable -- it also offers a building-block data center and a high-density zone service.

	The green data center 2.0: Beyond best practices SearchDataCenter.com | 06 May 2008 ARTICLE - Incremental data center energy-efficiency improvement will not meet increasing demand for power. IT pros need to get radical and move beyond raised floors and hot aisle/cold aisle.

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	DC Pro: a breakdown of a data center efficiency tool 31 Jul 2008 TIP - Here is a step-by-step guide on how to navigate DC Pro, a new online tool by the U.S. Department of Energy meant to help data centers determine their energy efficiency.

	Economizer performance: Applying CFD modeling to the data center's exterior 25 Apr 2008 TIP - CFD is not only useful for modeling airflow within a data center, it can improve air economizer performance external to a building, preventing unwanted contaminants from entering.

	Green UPS Tier IV data center water-side economizers 21 Jan 2008 TIP - The facilities team at United Parcel Service's data center in Alpharetta, Ga., have green data center operations down to a science. Learn how they did it in this 2-part case study.

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	power usage effectiveness (PUE) 01 Apr 2008 WORD - Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a data center. PUE is determined by dividing the amount of power entering a data center by the power used to run the computer ...

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