ASHRAE’s new data center building standard includes recommended PUE levels

Why change the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric? 

Uptime Institute admits problems with multi-level certification, and its critics have a field day

If electric cars take off, their batteries could solve the problem of intermittent renewable energy supplies

Finally, Amazon responds to Greenpeace: the cloud saves carbon, no matter how you power it

Fires, leaks and shocks can strike data center workers. Let’s all keep safe

Cloud providers are asking for green tariffs. Electricity firms are not playing ball

Fears that UK’s new Government is printing Internet ration books are premature

Bloom Energy has large customers, but information (and installations) are a trickle not a flood

Data centers face a risk from their power and cooling systems. But managing for efficiency ought to reduce the danger

ASHRAE wants us to expand our humidity range. We’ll need to check what this will do to our liquidity

Innovative economy-mode technologies help save energy and improve system reliability while guaranteeing backup power in emergencies

Denser computing will force IT to adopt liquid cooling - and bring some very solid benefits 

Another new cloud heating player has arrived

Were we nervous, taking our place within the world’s biggest tech event? You bet we were!

Giant data centers have an easier time with PUE, says Peter Judge