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Springer Science and Business Media LLC (preprint) 2026

Battery reserve autonomy and diesel generator mission reliability

When presenting UPS battery autonomy as a way to improve generator reliability, compute the reserve threshold against the mission duration and report that autonomy of minutes adds little to long-outage generator reliability.

  • For a 72 h mission with Fehr parameters: 0.95617 with one generator, 0.95847 with an ideal 4 h battery reserve, 0.99808 with two independent generators.
Technical guideFree to read

iMasons Climate Accord (Infrastructure Masons) 2026

Best Practices for Data Center LCAs

Run an embodied-carbon estimate from the BOM at each design stage.

  • Related standards: EN 15978, ISO 14040, ISO 14044.
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CIGRE US National Committee, 2025 Grid of the Future Symposium (arXiv preprint) 2025

Best Practices for Large Load Interconnections: A North American Perspective on Data Centers

In a large-load interconnection application, verify the relevant entity's large-load threshold (10-75 MW) and ramp limit (Southern ≤20 MW/min) early; definitions differ widely between entities.

  • Southern Company is the only entity in this review with a numeric ramp cap: ≤20 MW/min under normal operation.
Research paperPDF

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).
RegulationFree to read

T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Siber Güvenlik Başkanlığı 2026

Bilgi ve İletişim Güvenliği Rehberi - 3.6.2 Sistem Odası/Veri Merkezine Yönelik Güvenlik Tedbirleri (Information and Communication Security Guide - measures for system rooms/data centres)

Provide a Turkey public-sector compliance checklist mapping the measures to design objects: dedicated IT UPS, N+1 air conditioning with auto changeover, redundant feeds, generator fuel redundancy, room adjacency checks against wet areas.

  • Water, power, humidity, temperature and smoke must be monitored with thresholds and alarms; monitoring must not be exposed externally (3.6.2.5).
Technical guideFree to read

European Commission, DG ENER 2026

Call for evidence for an initiative with an impact assessment - Data centres in the EU: minimum performance standards (Ares(2026)8908107)

Track this initiative as an upcoming rule pack; leave design headroom against likely MPS indicators (PUE, WUE, waste-heat reuse readiness, grid flexibility).

  • Legal basis is Article 194(2) TFEU; EU action is justified to avoid divergent national approaches.
Research paperPDF

arXiv preprint (cs.SE), Google 2024

Carbon accounting in the Cloud: a methodology for allocating emissions across data center users

In allocating carbon to data-centre users, give idle power to whoever holds the resource allocation and share dynamic power by actual usage; because an idle server draws about 45% of peak power, the idle share is large.

  • Resources with equivalent busy power used to weight idle-power allocation: 1 Intel Skylake N1 CPU core = 20 GiB RAM = 1 TiB SSD = 6 TiB HDD.
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Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 2 (ACM) 2023

Carbon Explorer: A Holistic Framework for Designing Carbon Aware Datacenters

Add an hourly 24/7 CFE coverage calculator to site and energy design that sizes wind, solar, BESS (in hours of IT load) and server headroom together; use hourly or sub-hourly supply profiles, never daily averages.

  • Grid lifecycle intensities (gCO2eq/kWh): wind 11, nuclear 12, hydro 24, solar 41, biofuels/other 230, natural gas 490, oil 650, coal 820.

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