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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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.
The Green Grid 2026
In the metrics roadmap, plan an EUI/DCRE panel combining energy, water and IT work capacity next to PUE.
Schneider Electric 2022
In the metering plan generator, confirm meters exist to produce the chosen maturity tier's metric set: total facility kWh, IT kWh for PUE, renewable kWh, site water m3 for WUE, reused energy for ERF.
European Commission 2020
Create an "EU GPP 2020 (core/comprehensive)" compliance profile: check refrigerant GWP <= 10 in the cooling catalogue, REF = 1 for third-party facilities, ICT class A2/A3 and the W class of liquid loops.
Cummins 2024
Carry fuel compatibility (HVO/EN 15940), emissions tier/NOx and permitted annual run hours in the generator catalog.
Executive Office of the President / Federal Register 2025
For projects assumed on federal land, put the site criteria on the checklist: soil and terrain, transmission proximity, telecom, distance from waters and air quality.
Schneider Electric 2018
Battery catalog: chemistry (VRLA, LFP, NMC, LMO, NCA, LTO, LCO), specific energy, design and cycle life, rated temperature, footprint and weight per kWh, recharge time and compatible UPS models.
Nortek Air Solutions 2021
Support peak pPUE (electrical sizing, with N-x units offline at ASHRAE N50/N20 extremes) separately from annual pPUE/WUE (energy) in the cooling plant model.
Energy Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)) 2025
For UPS duty with a few cycles a year and minutes of autonomy, compare battery chemistries by environmental impact categories (GWP, ecotoxicity, resource depletion) as well as energy density, because production and EOL dominate.
Eaton 2021
When sizing UPS batteries, model a grid-services band on top of the required autonomy.
Schneider Electric 2025
Add EPD/PEP fields to each catalogue product: programme operator, PCR/PSR version, validity date, functional unit, reference product weight and rating, per-stage kg CO2e, emission factor used and exclusions such as batteries.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2025
Site and compliance rules should hold jurisdiction-specific targets (for example Germany: PUE 1.2 for new builds and 10-20% ERF).
Uptime Institute Intelligence 2023
For EU sites of 1 MW and above, trigger the EED waste-heat assessment as a step in the design process.
iMasons Climate Accord (Infrastructure Masons) 2025
Include generator auxiliary loads (block heaters, battery chargers) in the parasitic load and PUE calculations.
National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL) 2026
In the heat-reuse module, support on-site end uses (low-temperature terminals, snow melt).
Energies (MDPI AG) 2020
In selling data-centre waste heat, set heat-pump COP by cooling type (all-liquid 6.3, mixed 5.5, air-cooled 4.1) and include electricity price sensitivity in the feasibility study.
Vertiv 2024
Add a TEWI calculation to cooling options (refrigerant GWP, charge kg, leak rate, life years, grid emission factor).
Schneider Electric 2020
Add an on-site energy/DER layer: sources utility, diesel_standby, gas_chp, cchp_absorption, pv, wind, fuel_cell, bess with a continuous vs standby flag.
Schneider Electric 2023
Add tenantId and commercialStatus (open, closed, reserved, internal) to racks, cages and floor zones, with a floor-plan overlay coloured by status and per-zone remaining power, cooling and ports.
Schneider Electric 2026
Give every asset type, serial, rack/U location, network port, explicit A/B power path (rack PDU, UPS, PDU, switchgear) and cooling-unit dependency so the design exports as a DCIM digital twin.
Schneider Electric 2022
Add expected-life defaults to the asset catalogue (LV switchgear 15-25, MV switchgear 30-40, UPS 10-15 years), insulation medium for MV gear (SF6 or SF6-free), refrigerant with GWP for cooling units, and links to PEP/EPD documents.
Vertiv 2023
Model UPS battery state of charge as partitioned: reserved backup energy used for autonomy checks plus an optional grid-service band.
Arup 2022
Include MEP items (generators, fuel tanks, UPS, switchgear, chillers, substations) in embodied-carbon estimates, not only structure.
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre 2025
Let liquid-cooled design templates allow facility supply temperatures up to 45 C with dry-cooler-only heat rejection, and show the resulting PUE.
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