DCD Awards
About the event
DCD's annual global awards ceremony and gala dinner recognising outstanding data centre projects, teams and people, aimed at industry leaders and shortlisted entrants.
Who it is for / why attend
DCD's annual awards ceremony and gala dinner for shortlisted data centre projects and teams and industry leaders. It is a chance to see recognised projects and network rather than a technical programme.
Venue
Dates and details are compiled from official organiser sources. Check the official website for the programme, admission requirements and registration status before making plans.
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Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM) 2021
A Guide to Reducing Carbon Emissions through Data Center Geographical Load Shifting
For geographic load shifting, consider locational marginal carbon emissions (lambda-CO2) as the signal instead of LMP or regional average carbon intensity; it gave the largest reduction (-1.44%).
- Lambda-CO2 shifting saved about 0.14 t CO2 per MW shifted and still reduced generation cost by 0.27%; LMP shifting cut cost by 1.07% but saved less carbon.
arXiv preprint (cs.CY; formatted for ACM e-Energy '26) 2026
Beyond PUE: A Local-Impact Audit Framework for Data Center Environmental Accountability
In siting and community-acceptance files, present PUE, WUE and CUE together with regional water stress, grid headroom and verification maturity (L0-L4); back project commitments with contractual limits and independent metering (L2-L3).
- Compliance gate: any unresolved major regulatory violation caps the composite score at a ceiling of 40 (suggested, subject to calibration).
ASHRAE 2022
Characterizing Data Center Cooling System Water Stress in the United States (2022 ASHRAE Annual Conference paper)
In site comparison, compute both site WUE and source (grid) water using a regional EWIF, and optionally a scarcity-weighted index.
- CRAC model: 100 kW per unit, 20 C supply air, 2.0 m3/s indoor and 4.0 m3/s outdoor airflow, COP varying with condensing temperature.
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