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Digital Realty Preps Customer PUE Tool
Digital Realty Trust (DLR) has developed a tool to provide Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) tracking data to customers who lease space in one of their wholesale data center properties. Jim Smith, the company’s chief technology officer, discusses the new tool and the value of PUE data as customers seek additional insight into the energy efficiency of their IT operations. Digital Realty says it will provide PUE snapshots every 15 minutes. This video runs 3 minutes, 15 seconds.
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About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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