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Tag Archive for: PUE

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Capacity allocation and the next generation of AI-era KPIs

Capacity allocation and the next generation of AI-era KPIs

May 20, 2026
AI workloads are reshaping data center infrastructure at an…
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Resiliency v low PUE: regulators a catalyst for innovation?

Resiliency v low PUE: regulators a catalyst for innovation?

September 4, 2024
Research has shown that while data center owners and operators…
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Large data centers are mostly more efficient, analysis confirms

Large data centers are mostly more efficient, analysis confirms

February 7, 2024
Uptime Institute calculates an industry average power usage…
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Global PUEs — are they going anywhere?

Global PUEs — are they going anywhere?

December 4, 2023
Regular readers of Uptime Institute’s annual data center survey,…
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US operators scour Inflation Reduction Act for incentives

US operators scour Inflation Reduction Act for incentives

May 10, 2023
In the struggle to reduce carbon emissions and increase renewable…
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Energy-efficiency focus to shift to IT — at last

Energy-efficiency focus to shift to IT — at last

May 3, 2023
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?

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

November 5, 2021
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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UI 2020

PUE: The golden metric is looking rusty

November 2, 2020
When the PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric was first discussed…
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Data Center PUE has leveled off since 20132020

Data center PUEs flat since 2013

April 27, 2020
The average power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio for a data…
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The Trend of PUE in 2019Uptime Institute

Is PUE actually going UP?

May 15, 2019
One of the more intriguing results of the Uptime Institute Global…
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