A chart from a whitepaper about The Green Grid's data center maturity model illustrates progress for different data centers
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org) launched three new metrics last week at its annual Technical Forum, according to a report Tuesday by Greenbiz.com.
Water Usage Effectiveness, first announced in December 2010, was one of the measurements released last week. The other two metrics include Energy Reuse Effectiveness and Data Center Compute Efficiency.
WUE assesses the water used on-site to operate a data center, including water used for humidification and water evaporated for energy production or cooling of the facility.
ERE measures the benefit of reusing energy from a data center, giving operators the tools to identify and recover energy from their data center.
DCcE allows data center operators to understand the efficiency of compute resources and is used as a metric to determine data center productivity.
According to the report, the Green Grid has released various tools to assist data center managers and operators as well.
For example, the Green Grid’s Data Center Maturity Model helps operators “determine how resource-efficient their facilities are from minimal to visionary.” This system evaluates many parts of the data center from power and cooling to storage and network systems.
At the end of February The Green Grid announced that its Power Usage Effectiveness metric was established by a task force as the recommended metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers in Japan, US and the UK.
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