Best Practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Data Center Design: Revised March 2011 (Brochure)
This guide provides an overview of best practices for energy-efficient data center design which spans the categories of Information Technology (IT) systems and their environmental conditions, data center air management, cooling and electrical systems, on-site generation, and heat recovery. IT system energy efficiency and environmental conditions are presented first because measures taken in these areas have a cascading effect of secondary energy savings for the mechanical and electrical systems. This guide concludes with a section on metrics and benchmarking values by which a data center and its systems energy efficiency can be evaluated. No design guide can offer 'the most energy-efficient' data center design but the guidelines that follow offer suggestions that provide efficiency benefits for a wide variety of data center scenarios.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 972929
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/GO-102010-2956; TRN: US201006%%534
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP); Supercedes previous February 2010 version.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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