WP#2 - Guidelines for Energy Efficient Data Centers
The Green Grid
One of The Green Grid's first papers, this document gives a framework for improving the energy efficiency of new and existing data centres. It serves today as historical context.
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Overview
The document was published by The Green Grid (TGG) on 23 February 2007 and is one of the organisation's first white papers. It offers a framework for improving the energy efficiency of both new and existing data centres.
The approach has two steps. First it reviews the nature of data-centre energy consumption, that is, where the energy goes. Building on that picture, it then suggests best practices. In the library the document is tagged 'Best practices'. The abstract gives no numerical targets or thresholds.
As context, the paper can be read as a forerunner of the efficiency checklists later formalised in the Maturity Model and the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres. Given the time elapsed, its technical detail may be dated, so newer sources are the better place to look for numerical thresholds.
As a limit, the paper does not reflect today's high-density and AI-heavy load conditions. It is most useful as the skeleton of a checklist that orders efficiency measures by the subsystem they affect.
Key points
- Dated 23 February 2007; one of The Green Grid's first papers.
- Provides a framework for improving the energy efficiency of new and existing data centres.
- Reviews the nature of data-centre energy consumption.
- Suggests best practices; tagged 'Best practices' in the library.
- Historical forerunner of later checklists such as the Maturity Model and EU Code of Conduct.
- The record rests on the public summary only.
Using it in design
- Use as seed content for the tool's efficiency-measure checklist, linking each measure to the subsystem it affects.
- Treat as historical; prefer newer sources such as the EU Code of Conduct and ASHRAE 90.4 for numeric thresholds.
- Adopt an energy-breakdown approach as the first step in ranking efficiency improvements.
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Who should read it
Designers building data center efficiency checklists, and readers tracing the history of efficiency thinking in the sector.
Related standards
- EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres
Publication details
- Authors
- The Green Grid
- Publisher
- The Green Grid
- Year
- 2007
- Document number
- WP 2
- Document language
- English
- Source type
- Industry body
- Access
- Citation only
- Licence
- Copyright retained; citation only — the publisher’s terms apply to the original document
Original licence note
Download requires a free TGG account sign-in and is governed by The Green Grid Terms of Use; summary and facts from the public library landing page; full text not redistributed.
Citation
The Green Grid (2007). WP#2 - Guidelines for Energy Efficient Data Centers. The Green Grid. WP 2. https://www.thegreengrid.org/resources/library-and-tools/wp-2-guidelines-energy-efficient-data-centers
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