On July 8, 2008, 150 attendees joined in at the Microsoft-hosted National Data Center Energy Efficiency Strategy Workshop . The sidebar opposite summarizes the overall aims of this workshop. During the workshop, I delivered a presentation on “Incenting...

This third and final article describes how you can start adopting PUE in your datacenter, and how Microsoft has benefited from its long-term use of the PUE metric. If you do not have anything to adjust that can change your PUE value, you will not be...