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Data Center Energy Efficiency Guide
- By: Rich Miller
  March 4th, 2011
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In the data center business, energy efficiency is a business imperative. Soaring power usage has intensified the focus on the IT power bill and how it can be managed. Data center efficiency has become a C-suite concern. Fortunately, some of the industry’s leading data center operators and vendors have shared tips on strategies and best practices in design and operations. Data Center Knowledge brings these together in a series called the Data Center Energy Efficiency Guide. Here are the stories:
- Assessment
- Processors and Servers
- Monitoring and CFD
- Temperature
- Containment
- Waste Heat Recycling
New installments of The Data Center Energy Efficiency Guide will be posted in coming days. Bookmark this page to access the entire series. You can also stay current on Data Center Knowledge’s news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook.
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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.

Lawrence Leask

Posted March 7th, 2011

Most discussions centre on what happens inside the centre.
How can you tell how efficient your chiller is?
Is it meeting the manufactures COP?
Has it been serviced properly?
We have been using a portable refrigeration performance analyser.
Results have been very good, faulty expansion valves, condensers clogged with oil, shortage of refrigerant.
All on large chillers working under heavy load.

Choosing New Data Center Servers and Processors | 1E Blogs

Posted March 8th, 2011

[...] Data Center Knowledge has a useful series of articles going under the banner Data Center Energy Efficiency Guide. [...]

rabah vincent

Posted March 8th, 2011

Really great articles, I’m really involved in GreenIT in France, and I would like to translate and publish, all this serie of articles on my blog … And also, put many links to your site

Regards.

George Drits

Posted March 9th, 2011

You can use also the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centers. It is a great paper/guide for Data Centers Energy Efficiency.

http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/html/standby_initiative_data_centers.htm

Alistair George

Posted March 18th, 2011

The Smartcool Technology can make the compressors in the chillers more efficient by between 15 – 25%. A retrofittable technology, proven with C&W, Vodafone, Telefonica, IBM and Colt and many more.

Third party testing by U.S. Dept. of Energy – this is the perfect technology with usual paybacks under 2 years.

Yuri Tijerino

Posted August 9th, 2011

I have actually been recycling server heat during past 3 winters at my Utah home. I have a micro-data center (30+ CPUs) in my basement, which I created from the ground up. It is fully enclosed on 8-inch concrete walls, fully insulated with anti-static material and is about 100SqrFt. It is fully redundant in all senses: Three, bonded broadband connections (BGP), UPS systems and unattended power generator for blackouts, redundant gateways and routers and and offsite redundant rack at my office in Japan, with a backup server at my Japan home. Anyway, I have been wondering what to do with the heat produced by the servers during the summer and whether it would be possible to generate electricity from it. Maybe I should use it heat my water. Any ideas?