Monitoring power usage effectiveness paints a powerful picture
As the importance of information technology has grown in the
world of business, data centers have become the centerpieces at
many companies. The demands placed on these facilities—and the
HVAC systems that serve them—grow constantly and will likely
continue to do so into the foreseeable future. The Green Grid
(www.thegreengrid.org) is an organization dedicated to helping
the information technology industry improve energy efficiency in
data centers. The non-profit, open industry consortium of end-
users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects,
and utility companies collaborates to improve the resource
efficiency of data centers and business computing ecosystems.
The organization was formed in 2007, and on April 5, 2010, it
announced a global consortium agreement on the guiding
principles of data center energy efficiency metrics. Their goal
is to create a set of globally accepted metrics for data center
efficiency, and this effort r