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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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11/13/2018 |
Practical Considerations for Metering Data Centers
Slides from Dale Sartor's presentation on metering in data centers at Energy Exchange 2018. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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10/02/2018 |
The Information Factories
Article Featured in Nature magazine in 13 September 2018 | Vol 561 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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07/24/2018 |
A Joint Initiative to “Enhance Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers”
Slides from the First Advisory Group Meeting |
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07/17/2018 |
India Data Center Initiative | July 2018
Resources and meeting materials from the July 2018 Advisory Group Meeting. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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