EED delegated report due early May - what's the rush?
The European Commission will soon publish its delegated report, recommending a data center rating scheme and performance standards
Industry Views - The Energy & Sustainability Channel, Uptime Institute
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Resiliency vs low PUE: Could regulation spark innovation?
Germany’s Energy Efficiency Act, with its demands for a PUE of 1.2, has reignited a debate: can a data center be both highly available and highly efficient?
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When net-zero goals meet harsh realities
Executives have set bold sustainability claims - a painful and expensive correction is coming
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The role of generator maintenance in ensuring power resilience
For the data center market to achieve its projected growth trajectory, it must continue to adopt power-intensive next-generation IT technologies
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Sacrifice speed to cut cloud carbon and costs
Organizations can cut cloud carbon emissions and costs by migrating workloads to different regions, if users can tolerate extra latency
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Data center operators cautiously support nuclear
Support is split along geographic lines
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Direct liquid cooling: pressure is rising but constraints remain
Data center operators are squeezed between increasingly power-hungry servers and the demands of sustainability
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The ultimate liquid cooling: heat rejection into water
Dissipating data center waste heat into bodies of water, rather than the atmosphere, can provide efficiency benefits year round
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Data center operators give themselves a “Fail” for sustainability
Most say the industry's environmental commitments are not (yet) effective in curbing data centers' environmental impact