Upcoming Webinars and Presentations

Past Webinar Slides and Recordings

Barriers to Data Center Energy Efficiency: Insights from Experts and Operators

In this webinar, our researchers present findings from interviews with data center practitioners and highlight how data center siting, vendor relationships, and workforce development can help address data center energy performance.

Tour of the Center of Expertise (CoE) Data Center Energy Efficiency Toolkit

In this webinar, researchers from Berkeley Lab’s Center of Expertise for Data Centers (CoE) presented a high-level overview of the Data Center Energy Efficiency toolkit and how to use each tool.

Getting More Out of Your Data Center: Tips and Tools for Higher Energy Performance

This September 2023 webinar provides data center energy assessment tips and highlights relevant parts of CoE's Data Center Energy Assessment Toolkit. These tools provide an essential resource for data center assessments.

Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) Training - Informational Webinar

This webinar introduces attendees to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) training program, which covers energy assessment courses and software tools to reduce energy use and carbo

Computer Server Selection for Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization in Data Centers

This September 2022 webinar provides a review of key industry documents that help data centers operate more efficiently by purchasing computer servers that meet strict performance criteria

Tracking Data Center Efficiency: What PUE Can Tell Us and Where We Can Look To Better Understand Energy Performance

In this November 2021 webinar, LBNL presented its latest snapshot of efficiency in data centers, based on nearly 60 assessments of energy use and efficiency opportunities in data centers from 2006 to 2020.

Accessing Onboard Server Sensors for Energy Efficiency

Accessing onboard server sensor data is often not well understood. The objective of this webinar is to make this technology better known to help increase the use of onboard sensors and thereby be in a better position to manage both IT and facility energy.

Barriers to Data Center Energy Efficiency: The Role of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Economics

This webinar provides a clear decision-making framework to data center owners and operators and will highlight some challenges that currently exist.

Thermal Guidelines and Temperature Measurements in Data Centers

This webinar covers how to implement accurate and cost-effective temperature management in data centers, which is not only important for air management and overall energy efficiency but also for thermal management of the IT equipment.

Energy Efficiency Toolkit Series: IT Equipment

In this webinar, our experts demonstrated how the IT Equipment Energy Assessment Tool diagnoses IT energy issues in any data center and identify key opportunities to save energy.

Energy Efficiency Toolkit Series: Air Management

This webinar provided an overview of cooling air management (AM) in data centers; identification of typical energy-saving opportunities in air management; and selective demonstration of Berkeley Lab's air management tools.

Energy Efficiency Toolkit Series: Electric Power Chain Tool

This webinar provided an overview of electric power supply components in data centers; identification of typical energy savings opportunities among those components; and an introduction to the new Electric Power Chain Tool.

Energy Efficiency Toolkit Series: A Suite of Energy Assessment Tools

This recorded webinar introduces the CoE's comprehensive toolkit for identifying energy-saving opportunities in data centers.

How to be an Energy Champion for Your Data Center

Learn how to make the business case for energy efficiency in your data center. This webinar helped participants identify key stakeholder interests, underlying drivers, and institutional and technical barriers that need to be considered.

Opportunities for ESPCs in Data Centers

This webinar will present an overview of the opportunities for using energy saving performance contracts (ESPCs) as a mechanism to finance energy improvements in data centers.

DC Pro Tool Tutorial

This webinar provides a live demo of the CoE's most comprehensive assessment tool in the toolkit, the Data Center Pro (DC Pro) tool.

Energy Efficiency Potential of Small Data Centers

This webinar explained why small data centers shouldn't be overlooked when it comes to energy efficiency, and how low-cost, high-win strategies can reduce energy demand.

Designing and Managing Data Centers for Resilience

This webinar will review typical data center features that already support reliability, then describe two pathways—demand response (DR) and microgrids—that can enhance data center resilience.

You have a Data Center - Now What? Stories from the Field

Learn about the Better Buildings Data Center Accelerator Toolkit, the CoE's new Business Case resource, and learn how organization leveraged the Maryland Data Center Energy Efficiency Grant Program to achieve energy efficiency in their data centers.