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A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results. PUE was developed by The Green Grid as a way for operators to [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched its Energy Star program for data centers, meaning companies can start applying today to see if their facility qualifies for an Energy Star logo. The government is concerned about the level of energy consumption by data centers. In 2006 they were already estimated to account for 1.5 percent [...]

The U.S. EPA is wrapping up work on an Energy Star program for data centers that it hopes to launch in June, EPA officials said this week. The goals of the program are to give organizations more incentive to improve the energy efficiency of their data centers, and also give them a way to track [...]