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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Consulting-Specifying Engineer 2013
Offer distribution-voltage options (208/120, 415/240, 380 Vdc) with automatic loss and fault-current comparison.
Schneider Electric 2012
Capture the IT load profile at project setup as four fields (initial kW, minimum final kW, maximum final kW, ramp-up years, default lifetime 10 years), not one design load.
Danfoss 2026
In the cooling-plant builder keep a component list per subsystem (chiller, CDU, pump skid, heat recovery) with fields for maximum chilled-water temperature, HX approach temperature and VFD THDi.
Legrand 2022
Give UPS records an architecture enum {conventional, modular, scalable_modular}, module rating, maximum parallel units, MTTR hours and a hot-swap flag; store efficiency at 25/50/75/100% load, not one number.
Danfoss 2024
Report PUE, WUE and CUE together in the sustainability module.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ENERGY STAR) 2026
In the cost model, attach utility incentive data (rebates) to measures such as efficient UPS, containment and economizers.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2023
A heat-reuse module should report recoverable heat (kW) and its temperature band by cooling technology (air, RDHx, DLC/immersion) and suggest compatible heat-host categories.
Socomec 2024
In the single-line editor, tag transfer devices as ATSE (IEC 60947-6-1) or STS with a transfer-time field, and suggest STS where the load needs under about 10 ms.
Arup (Arup Foresight) 2025
Report both market-based and location-based carbon (hourly grid intensity) for a design.
Energy Efficiency (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 2019
In waste-heat sales, set outlet temperature by cooling technology (air 25-35 °C, liquid up to 60 °C, two-phase up to 90 °C) and check heat-pump requirement against the district-heating generation (45-55 °C for 4G).
Arup 2026
Add a heat-recovery block to the cooling design: recoverable heat (kW, % of IT load), supply/return temperatures and optional heat-pump lift.
AECOM 2014
Provide a PUE build-up chart by subsystem (chillers, fans, pumps, UPS, lighting, transformers) for existing-site audits.
Turner & Townsend 2024
In APAC site screening, weight power availability heavily.
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)) 2026
Follow the energy-balance chain in a PV/BESS sizing helper (daily load split, conversion losses, usable depth of discharge, power rating against night peak); report usable-energy duration rather than nameplate duration and make DoD an explicit input.
Electronics (MDPI AG) 2018
When selecting double-conversion UPS, include the measured efficiency curve by load point and the annual energy cost of the loss difference (here about 1380 USD per year for 450 W) in total cost of ownership.
European Commission JRC 2019
Seed the embodied-versus-operational carbon module with the roughly one third procured assets and two thirds use-stage split as a default sanity check for LCA outputs.
Schneider Electric 2016
Store full UPS efficiency curves (10/25/50/75/100% load), ride-through, footprint and service clearance, and a technology field (static VRLA, static Li-ion, DRUPS) rather than one peak value.
European Parliament and Council of the European Union 2023
If the site's installed IT power is 500 kW or more, provide in the design for the annual Annex VII reporting and the monitoring infrastructure (energy, power utilisation, temperature set points, waste heat, water, renewables); measurement is based on the EN 50600-4 family.
Frontiers in Energy Research (Frontiers Media SA) 2022
For loads of 50 kW per rack and above, evaluate a hybrid cold-plate scheme (main loads on cold plates, remaining heat in air) for a PUE target below 1.2.
7x24 Exchange Magazine 2024
Compute and plot PUE versus IT load for phased designs, showing step changes when each POD or block is energized.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy 2022
Mirror this process in the audit workflow of the operations module: pre-visit data request, on-site measurements, report.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2025
Add a demand-flexibility scenario to the energy model: curtailable IT share and on-site generation or BESS dispatch.
Cundall 2021
Allow server fan power to be entered as a fraction of IT load and compute TUE alongside PUE.
Uptime Institute Journal (Uptime Institute) 2021
When comparing air and DLC options, report total facility energy and IT energy, not PUE alone.
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