Author Archive for: Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, jdavis@uptimeinstitute.com

About Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, jdavis@uptimeinstitute.com

Jacqueline Davis is a Research Analyst at Uptime Institute covering global trends and technologies that underpin critical digital infrastructure. Her background includes environmental monitoring and data interpretation in the environmental compliance and health and safety fields.

Entries by Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, jdavis@uptimeinstitute.com

Bring on regulations for data center sustainability, say Europe and APAC

January 12, 2022/in Design, Executive/by Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, jdavis@uptimeinstitute.com

As the data center sector increases its focus on becoming more environmentally sustainable, regulators still have a part to play — the question is to what extent?

Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?

November 5, 2021/in Design, Executive, Operations/by Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, jdavis@uptimeinstitute.com

The power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is predominant thanks to its universal applicability and its simplicity: energy used by the entire data center, divided by energy used by the IT equipment.