Topic guide
Discover publications on data centre energy consumption, power demand and efficiency. Investigate measurement methods, operating conditions and improvement approaches through summaries and original references.
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U.S. General Services Administration (Public Buildings Service) 2020
Set up the commissioning plan at the start of a data center project: review the OPR and basis of design with the CxP and write measurable performance targets.
Schneider Electric 2015
Build the PUE calculator on an explicit load-classification table: each catalog component is IT, infrastructure, excluded or shared.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2026
Evaluate cooling and siting options on energy, carbon, site water and water scarcity together, not on PUE or WUE alone.
The Green Grid (Global Metrics Harmonization Task Force) 2014
Present PUE, partial PUE, REF/GEC, ERF, WUE and CUE as one consistent metric set in every report.
Schneider Electric 2017
Add the indirect evaporative cooler (IEC) as a plant type, with parameters for approach temperature, wet-bulb effectiveness, trim DX capacity fraction and water use only during evaporative hours.
Vertiv 2022
Add to the UPS catalog an efficiency curve per mode (VFI/VI/VFD) at 25/50/75/100% load and a transferTimeMs per mode.
Schneider Electric 2021
Expose CHW supply temperature (default 15 C for new builds, range 7 to 21 C) and CHW deltaT as design inputs, and recompute economizer hours, chiller kW and CRAH coil selection when they change.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2017
Write the humidity strategy around room dew point: set a wide dead band (about 16 °F to 59 °F dew point unless the IT owner agrees a higher lower limit) rather than a narrow RH band.
Schneider Electric 2017
Default to hot-aisle containment for new designs; if containment is deferred, reserve the provisions and space for a future HACS.
Schneider Electric 2011
Expose a 'value of a kW' widget: lifetime cost = 8.76 MWh/yr x tariff x PUE x life (default $0.12/kWh, 10 years) plus a capacity-cost term.
Cummins India Limited 2020
Build the fuel curve from the selected model and rating; do not reuse these numbers for other generators.
U.S. Green Building Council 2019
Build a "LEED Data Centers" checklist in the sustainability module that requires an annualised design PUE from the app's energy model.
NREL 2018
Fix two design temperatures early, the coolest supply you can produce on the hottest day and the return temperature needed for heat reuse, and select IT equipment against them.
Schneider Electric 2019
Create a coolingMethod enum (air, rdhx, dtc_1p, dtc_2p, immersion_chassis, immersion_tub_1p, immersion_tub_2p).
The Green Grid 2016
For designs capturing at least 70-80% of heat to liquid with chiller-less warm-water loops, set the PUE target near 1.1.
Microsoft 2025
Expose climate-driven partial PUE/WUE in site comparison; flag that hot-humid regions (e.g. APAC tropics) give about 0.1 higher PUE for the same design.
Meta 2025
Take hyperscale best-in-class WUE of about 0.2 L/kWh (withdrawal basis) and PUE of about 1.08 as benchmarks.
Schneider Electric 2020
Add an optional grid-interactive UPS feature
ABB 2026
For loads above roughly 30-50 MW add a grid-code compliance checklist (LVRT duration, frequency band, RoCoF, PF) and let users choose LV-UPS versus MV-UPS architecture.
U.S. DOE FEMP 2010
Choose maintenance strategy by equipment criticality: predictive for critical equipment with random failures, preventive for equipment subject to wear, reactive for small non-critical items; build a master equipment list and priority matrix.
Schneider Electric 2025
Allow an hourly (8760 h) emission-factor profile input in the carbon calculator, falling back to the annual average.
The Green Grid (multi-org task force) 2011
Tag every PUE result with a category (0-3) and period; report the design-model PUE as category 3-equivalent annual energy.
ABB 2025
Mark 800 VDC as an "emerging" distribution option in the electrical catalog and show prerequisites: DC-rated SSCBs, DC busway, grounding scheme choice.
Eaton / Trane 2025
Voltage-selection rule: motors above about 200 kW (large chillers and pumps) default to MV (4.16/6.6/11 kV) feeders; compute I = P/(sqrt(3) x V x PF) to show cable savings.
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