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 2015
Include economizer control limits, part-load loss curves for each electrical stage and the redundancy topology as energy model inputs.
Jacobs 2023
Use the 6.75 Mgal/MW-yr figure as a sanity-check benchmark for evaporative designs.
Energies (MDPI AG) 2024
Assess waste-heat sale feasibility with ERF, heat-pump COP (4.37 for 65 °C DH inlet), distance to the DH network (3-2265 m) and payback (6.44-14.98 years) together.
Eaton 2015
Keep an efficiency curve per mode (double conversion versus eco/ESS) and the transfer time in the catalogue.
Schneider Electric 2014
Compute eco savings through the PUE stack (UPS loss plus the cooling of that loss), not from the UPS efficiency delta alone.
European Commission, DG GROW (Intertek) 2016
When buying servers and storage use SERT results and ENERGY STAR server specifications to compare energy efficiency; the EU Code of Conduct also refers to ENERGY STAR for procurement.
Uptime Institute Journal 2016
Catalogue economizer units with operating modes, restart time and recirculation capability.
Schneider Electric 2011
Never output a single PUE: produce a PUE-vs-IT-load curve (10-100%) and an annual PUE from hourly weather bins, labelling the averaging period explicitly.
Schneider Electric 2011
Model each infrastructure block with no-load, proportional and square-law coefficients (Table 2 as defaults) and compute PUE as a curve over 0-100% IT utilisation.
International Energy Agency 2024
Use this document as benchmark and context only, not as a source of default values.
International Energy Agency 2025
Add a China profile to regulatory rules: show the average PUE below 1.5 and on-load rate of at least 60% targets as a compliance warning (possibly stricter for national hub regions).
arXiv preprint (Harvard University et al.) 2025
For AI-campus grid studies, use the default rack-density bands (7-10 kW traditional, 30-100+ kW AI).
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ENERGY STAR) 2026
Add a 'server room / embedded (<50 kW IT)' project template with prompts for sub-metering and a consolidation-vs-retrofit comparison.
Environmental Research: Energy (IOP Publishing) 2025
Calculate AI training cluster energy and power demand from measured node power (here 7.3-7.79 kW in training, 76% of TDP) rather than TDP; a TDP-based estimate inflated a 20,000-GPU cluster by 19 GWh.
International Energy Agency 2025
Use the IEA component split (servers about 60%, storage about 5%, network up to 5%, cooling 7-30%) to sanity-check modelled energy breakdowns.
International Energy Agency 2026
In a site module for Korea and Japan, flag grid-congested metro regions and suggest renewable-rich regions.
Sustainability (MDPI AG) 2023
Show evaporative free-cooling feasibility with a potential-hours study that bins the city's hourly wet-bulb distribution against mode thresholds (13 and 15 °C); in a humid climate direct evaporative mode ran only 262 h a year.
European Commission JRC 2024
In grid connection and permitting discussions account for regional concentration (data centres are 18% of national electricity in Ireland); in dense markets grid capacity and permitting can be a critical risk.
Energies (MDPI AG) 2025
In PUE comparisons state the facility type (edge, SMB, enterprise, colocation, hyperscale) and assign IT/facility power categories per The Green Grid definitions in detail; PUE across types is not directly comparable.
U.S. DOE Federal Energy Management Program / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2013
Use the package cost/kW and payback ranges as defaults in the retrofit measure library (air management, generator block heater controls, chilled-water plant).
Building Simulation (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 2024
Calculate cooling plant efficiency from the lifecycle-average COP reflecting progressive IT load ramp rather than the design-point COP (in Beijing 2.9 lower than design).
Buildings (MDPI AG) 2025
Assess heat recovery from chilled-water return with a water-source heat pump and hot-water storage in annual-hour simulation; match the winter and summer outlet temperature difference (45 and 30 °C) to the user's need.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ENERGY STAR) 2024
Store the SERT version alongside every imported server efficiency score so comparisons between catalogue entries stay traceable.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ENERGY STAR) 2020
Record the test-condition envelope (18-28 C inlet, supply voltage) alongside certified storage power values so users know published watts correspond to a cool inlet; apply a temperature-uplift caveat when the design inlet setpoint is higher.
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