The European Commission will soon publish its delegated report, recommending a data center rating scheme and performance standards

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?

Executives have set bold sustainability claims - a painful and expensive correction is coming

For the data center market to achieve its projected growth trajectory, it must continue to adopt power-intensive next-generation IT technologies

Growing European data demand is giving rise to increased construction of data center facilities – the Nordic region is emerging as a popular location for this

Organizations can cut cloud carbon emissions and costs by migrating workloads to different regions, if users can tolerate extra latency

Support is split along geographic lines

Dissipating data center waste heat into bodies of water, rather than the atmosphere, can provide efficiency benefits year round

Most say the industry's environmental commitments are not (yet) effective in curbing data centers' environmental impact

Bitcoin’s energy use is controversial, but that is not the whole story

Extreme weather and investor and regulator pressures have encouraged more data center operators to reevaluate their resiliency

Advances in data center cooling and power technology could seriously undermine PUE as a benchmarking tool and eventually spell its obsolescence as an efficiency metric

Industry body expands its climatic recommendations for data centers to address corrosives, high-density servers

RECs aren't good enough. We need to move to PPAs and hourly matching of energy consumption

When we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, we will still have global warming to contend with

PUE is a simple metric, but now we've reached levels of efficiency where it could become counter-productive

Uptime's global survey reveals some global trends

Power usage effectiveness (PUE) improved rapidly at first. Now it has hit a plateau

Allocating IT costs to internal customers improves accountability, cuts waste

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