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"Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena."

Today the highlighted piece, PUE is DEAD: The Case for Performance Per Watt, was written by Mark Davidson, the JouleX Sustainability Officer.

An exerpt from the article:

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) has been called “The Holy Grail” of data center energy metrics so often that we actually found it impossible to find out who coined the term. As time, technology and sustainability efforts evolve, the PUE metric is no longer the stopping point for energy efficiency measurement, but it has become just one more piece in the larger picture.

What does PUE do? It measures how much of the energy entering a data center facility is used to power the computing devices within, versus the amount used for cooling and overhead of the facility. That’s it.

Read the full article here: PUE is DEAD: The Case for Performance Per Watt