There's a new measure of data centre efficiency. Peter Judge says it might as well measure kittens per kiloWatt hour
Governments need to handle data centres with care, The Green Grid and techUK argue
Peter Judge welcomes the fruits of another year's work on data centre efficiency
The ringing in your power supply might be putting your data centre bills up
The Green Grid's PUE standard is on its way to ISO. Peter Judge wonders what that leaves for IT efficiency…
IT kit has toughened up, so data centres can turn off the coolers
Self-assessment tool allows data centres to be measured against the Green Grid's DCMM
The Green Grid has updated its free data centre cooling maps to allow managers to take advantage of free air-cooling
Data centre achieves "new levels of energy efficiency", according to a study by the Green Grid
Containers got backing this week from Swedish designers and data centre nerds, says Peter Judge. How can they fail?
PUE and other efficiency measures are useful, but data centre owners are chasing money now, says Peter Judge
Users will be able to compare data centre efficiency using an online tool from the Green Grid
Campaigns against energy waste in the data centres may not be looking deeply enough, or in the right place, says…
Data centre operators should be more open about their energy use, according to Greenpeace
A new way to measure efficiency for data centre servers seems to duplicate and misrepresent other measures, says Peter Judge
Power Assure says PAR4 measures how much work your servers do. Doesn't SPECpower already do that?
If Green IT is all about efficiency and cutting waste, then why are organisations duplicating their efforts, asks Peter Judge
Energy efficient data centres are complex. But the information about them needs to be as simple to read as food…
eWEEK wasn't sure how useful the Green Grid Maturity Model was. The Grid's Harkeeret Singh talked us through it
The Green Grid's Maturity Model could be a useful tool, but let's give it time to mature, says Peter Judge
In its Data Centre Maturity Model, the Green Grid adds servers and storage to its power and cooling concerns
When Facebook fell out with Greenpeace over coal-fired power, the new Green Grid measurement might have helped sort things out,…
Alongside PUE to measure power efficiency, the Green Grid now has CUE to measure carbon use
Data centres can now earn the familiar aqua-and-white Energy Star label if they pass the agency's qualification requirements
The new site in Utah uses rain water for cooling as well as outside air
Data centre efficiency won't change until operators respond to suggestions for better practice developed outside their own company, according to…
Moves to require free-air cooling have got data centre operators overheated
Industry group Green Grid is pushing for an international agreement on data centre standards