Topic guide
Browse publications on environmental impacts, carbon, resource use and life cycles. Compare assessment methods while reviewing their scope, data periods and reporting boundaries alongside the original sources.
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ASHRAE 2022
In site comparison, compute both site WUE and source (grid) water using a regional EWIF, and optionally a scarcity-weighted index.
Vertiv 2025
Add a BESS block to the site model with power (MW), duration (h), reserved-backup fraction and grid/island capability.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2026
Extend the generator catalogue with technology type (diesel, HVO, gas, H2 ICE, PEM fuel cell), emissions factor relative to the 1742 lb/MWh baseline, start time, block-load capability and NFPA 110 level.
iMasons Climate Accord (Infrastructure Masons) 2025
Add embodied-carbon fields (kgCO2e; data source: EPD / TM65 / spend-based) to catalogue items and roll them up per design, reporting the share from supplier-specific EPDs.
European Commission 2021
Add an "EU Taxonomy 8.1" compliance profile: a Code of Conduct expected-practice checklist with justification fields for non-applicable items, and a refrigerant GWP <= 675 check in the cooling catalogue.
European Commission / Official Journal of the European Union 2024
In preliminary sustainability calculations, compute PUE, WUE, ERF and REF using the Annex III definitions.
European Commission 2024
When testing the 1 MW waste heat threshold, compute "total rated energy input" from rated capacity (for example utility connection or rated IT plus infrastructure), not modelled annual energy, and take the measurement point at the handover of electricity supply.
European Commission 2019
In the what-if module show direct and infrastructure savings separately for IT refresh scenarios: the document finds infrastructure savings exceed direct IT savings, which supports showing that every watt saved in IT also saves cooling and power infrastructure energy.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2025
Rack catalogue entries should carry a distribution-voltage attribute (48 VDC, +/-400 VDC, AC); flag 48 V in-rack designs above roughly 150 kW per rack as needing a sidecar or higher-voltage DC architecture.
Danfoss 2024
Report PUE, WUE and CUE together in the sustainability module.
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.
Uptime Institute Journal 2019
Support generator-less or reduced-generator options in the design wizard (fuel cell, long-duration BESS) with explicit autonomy-hours calculation and load-shed tiers.
Arup (Arup Foresight) 2025
Report both market-based and location-based carbon (hourly grid intensity) for a design.
Arup (Arup Foresight) 2025
Show WUE (L/kWh) next to PUE for every heat-rejection option.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Enerji Piyasası Düzenleme Kurumu (EPDK) 2019
In the generator module, tag standby diesel sets as 'imdat grubu': no generation licence, no export.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2025
Give catalogue items (UPS, generators, switchgear, cable, CDUs, racks, concrete) an embodied-carbon block: A1-A3 kg CO2e, functional unit, method (EPD/LCA/TM65/EEIO), verification status and emission factor source, matching this disclosure template.
Applied Sciences (MDPI AG) 2025
When connecting waste heat to DH, fix the DH generation early: for 5G and 4G direct heat-exchanger connection suffices (PUE below 1.6, ERF above 0.85), while 3G needs a high-temperature heat pump (PUE about 2.1, payback about 14 years).
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