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12/06/2018	Liquid in the Rack: Liquid Cooling Your Data Center Slides from NREL's presentation at the 2018 Better Buildings Summit Energy Exchange on designing and building the world's most efficient data center, with a focus on liquid cooling.	Liquid_Cooling_Your_Data_Center-NREL-EE.pdf
12/06/2018	Lessons Learned from the World’s Most Energy Efficient Data Center Slides from U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) presentation at Data Center World 2018.	Lessons_Learned_NREL.pdf
12/03/2018	Liquid Cooling Requirements White Paper In China and the United States, data centers are growing in number, size, and intensity, and consume a lot of energy.	Liquid Cooling White Paper.pdf
11/13/2018	Practical Considerations for Metering Data Centers Slides from Dale Sartor's presentation on metering in data centers at Energy Exchange 2018.	Sartor EE18_Metering Presentation052018.pdf Practical Considerations for Metering Data Centers
11/13/2018	The Facility Perspective on Liquid Cooling: Experiences and Proposed Open Specification Slides from the panel discussion at SuperCompute 2018 on experiences with liquid cooling and the proposed open specification.	SuperCompute2018 Liq Cool.pdf The Facility Perspective on Liquid Cooling: Experiences and Proposed Open Specification (PowerPoint Slides)
11/09/2018	Alternative Financing of Data Center Energy Projects This slide deck covers opportunities for energy efficiency in data centers. It reviews alternative financing options for energy efficiency projects in data centers, with a particular focus on how ESPCs and UESCs can help advance efficiency.	Sartor Data Center ESPC 110218.pdf Alternative Financing of Data Center Energy Projects
10/04/2018	Establishing Metrics, Setting Goals, and Achieving High Data Center Energy Performance This slide deck is from the 2018 Better Buildings 7x24 conference. A panel of Better Buildings partners from Digital Realty Trust, Intel, and the Lawrence Livermore, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories will share their stories and lessons learne	7x24 DOE Better Buildings 100418.pdf Establishing Metrics, Setting Goals, and Achieving High Data Center Energy Performance
10/02/2018	The Information Factories Article Featured in Nature magazine in 13 September 2018 \| Vol 561	nature.pdf
10/02/2018	ENERGY STAR® Program Requirements for Computer Servers These Version 3.0 ENERGY STAR Specification requirements will take effect on June 17, 2019 and computer servers should be tested using SERT Version 2.0.1. The Version 3.0 specification will recognize the	ENERGY STAR Version 3.0 Computer Servers Program Requirements (1).pdf
09/26/2018	Air Management Resource Webinar Slides from Magnus Herrlin's Air Management Resource Webinar. This webinar provides an overview of best practices in air management, including how to detect and correct problems.	2018-07-19 Air Management Resource Webinar.pdf Air Management Resource Webinar
08/21/2018	Small Data Center Workshop Presentation Slides Presentation slides from Dale Sartor's Small Data Center Workshop at Energy Exchange on August 20th, 2018.	Small_Data_Center_Workshop.pdf
08/20/2018	How to Save Money in Your Small Data Center At Energy Exchange 2018, Dale Sartor & Steve Greenberg of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) held a workshop on money-saving actions that you can take in your small data center.	Small Data Center Energy Exchange Workshop.pdf How to Save Money in Your Small Data Center (Presentation Slides)
07/24/2018	A Joint Initiative to “Enhance Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers” Slides from the First Advisory Group Meeting	Annexure-A IGBC and LBNL - DC Initiative, S Srinivas (1).pdf
07/17/2018	India Data Center Initiative \| July 2018 Resources and meeting materials from the July 2018 Advisory Group Meeting.	AGM Meeting - Agenda - July 2018.pdf AGM Meeting - Kickoff - July 2018.pdf AGM Meeting - Recommendations for 2017 ECBC Requirements- July 2018.pdf
07/02/2018	Demonstration: Portable Air Management Measurement Tools This report focuses on improving air management in small data centers due to the great potential for energy savings across the data center industry.	Air Management Measurement Tool Demo FINAL 2-23-2018.pdf
06/26/2018	Presentation: Harmonization of Open Standards Slides from Dale Sartor's presentation at the Data Center Dynamics Conference in San Francisco in June, 2018. The presentation covers the working group effort to develop a liquid cooled rack specification.	Webscale2018Presentation.pptx
06/22/2018	Open Specification for a Liquid Cooled Server Rack This document is a progress update on the development of an open specification for a liquid cooled server rack. The initiative to develop an open specification for liquid cooling is part of a larger initiative to harmonize international open standards i	OpenSpecification.pdf
04/18/2018	Presentation Slides: Air Management Webinar Slides from Magnus Herrlin's April 12th, 2018 webinar on Air Management. In this webinar, participants will: Learn basic Air Management "Best Practices" Detect Common Problems Correct Common Problems	Air Management Webinar_0.pdf Presentation Slides: Air Management Webinar
04/03/2018	Data Driven. Advancing a Sustainable Future. (Video) What is the future of the cloud? Take an inside look at the rise of our data driven world and the environmental impact of the energy consumption that data centers have today.
02/22/2018	Presentation: Big Results in Small Places Exploring the Untapped Energy Efficiency Potential of Small Data Centers Webinar slides from Better Buildings' Small Data Center Webinar, held on January 9th, 2018.	Big_Results_Small_Places-webinar slides.pdf
11/01/2017	Presentation: Environmental Conditions for Data Centers Slides from the November 2017 presentation on Environmental Conditions for Data Centers from Steve Greenberg of LBNL.	DCOI LBNL Env Conditions webinar 110117.pdf
10/01/2017	Data Centers and Advanced Microgrids Meeting Resiliency, Efficiency, and Sustainability Goals Through Smart and Cleaner Power Infrastructure While other facilities such as military bases, hospitals, and universities are exploring the concept of an advanced microgrid, data centers have been slow to warm up to the concept.	schneiderelectricnavigantresearchdatacentersandadvancedmicrogridswhitepaper102017pdf (3).pdf
09/28/2017	Small Data Centers, Large Energy Savings: an Introduction for Owners and Operators Webinar features Steve Greenberg, a lead author of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s "Small Data Center Energy Savings Guide," who provides actionable guidance to save energy in small data centers (less than 5,000 squa	Small Data Center Presentation.928.17.pdf
09/14/2017	Presentation: Federal Utility Partnership for Data Centers Presentation slides from a September 14th, 2017 webinar. The webinar provided an overview of the Center of Expertise for Energy Efficiency in Data Centers' resources available to utilities and outline a strategy for U.S.	Utility Partnerships Webinar Slides Sept-13-17.pdf
09/12/2017	Utility Energy Efficiency Program Design: Server Room Assessments and Retrofits This paper presents a suite of programs and services to help utilities capture the market opportunity of energy savings in data centers.	Utility Energy Efficiency Program Design.pdf

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