Data Center PUE

January 12, 2010

What is Data Center PUE?

PUE And How To Calculate Data Center Efficiency

Operating costs for data centers are rising as users demand for more power rises and heat generation becomes an issue for operators. Many data centers strive to lower their costs in order to extend savings to customers. PUE or Power Usage Effectiveness is becoming a key tool used in selecting a data center for many clients.

The Green Grid ^TM has developed a standard to calculate how much power is being used by servers, storage equipment, telco equipment, network equipment, KVM switches and other components (IT Equipment Power or IEP) used in a data center in relationship to the power used to cool and run the data center. The total power used by the data center is called the Total Facility Power or TFP. The relationship between these two components is called the Power Usage Effectiveness or PUE. As the power usage from colocation clients changes within a data center, so can the PUE. Read more

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