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Resiliency v low PUE: regulators a catalyst for innovation?
Research has shown that while data center owners and operators…
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Large data centers are mostly more efficient, analysis confirms
Uptime Institute calculates an industry average power usage…
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Global PUEs — are they going anywhere?
Regular readers of Uptime Institute’s annual data center survey,…
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US operators scour Inflation Reduction Act for incentives
In the struggle to reduce carbon emissions and increase renewable…
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Energy-efficiency focus to shift to IT — at last
Data centers have become victims of their own success. Ever-larger…
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Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?
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.
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PUE: The golden metric is looking rusty
When the PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric was first discussed…
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Data center PUEs flat since 2013
The average power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio for a data…
![The Trend of PUE in 2019](https://journal.uptimeinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PUE-line-495x400.jpg)
Is PUE actually going UP?
One of the more intriguing results of the Uptime Institute Global…