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Date	Title	Files and Links
02/06/2023	Case Study: Sandia National Laboratories' Holistic Data Center Design Integrates Energy and Water Efficiency, Flexibility and Resilience This NREL case study highlights Sandia National Laboratories and their holistic data center approach, which provides resilient energy- and water-efficient cooling for high-performance computing systems. Sandia’s optimized data center design and operatio	Sandia Labs_Holistic Data Center Design.pdf
05/01/2014	Case Study: Opportunities to Improve Energy Efficiency in Three Federal Data Centers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) evaluated three data centers for potential energy efficiency improvements during the summer of 2012.	Three DC Case Study _Mahdavi-May 2014.pdf
04/16/2015	Case Study: Net App Data Centers and Lab Presentation given at the data center workshop hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and PG&E at NetApp in Sunnyvale, CA. Author(s): Renne, R.	Netapp Data Centers SVLG 2015.pdf
07/01/2012	Case Study: JouleX Energy Management (JEM) Solution at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)- Draft This case study sought to demonstrate the capabilities of the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), a promising automated IT assessment and management tool that can be useful in helping to manage the data center environment.	Joulex Case Study_2012.pdf
05/01/2014	Case Study: Innovative Energy Efficiency Approaches in NOAA's Environmental Security Computing Center in Fairmont, West Virginia Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)’s staff evaluated the energy efficiency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new data center in Fairmont, West Virginia.	NOAA Case Study_Mahdavi-May 2014.pdf
04/16/2019	Capex Free Sourcing of Renewable Power and Storage Solutions: A New Trend Slides from the Capex Free Sourcing of Renewable Power and Storage Solutions: A New Trend presentation, made in Bangalore on February 13th, 2019.	CleanMax Presentation for CII_13.02.2019_WIP.pdf
06/06/2019	Capex free sourcing of renewable energy and storage solutions by Corporate India: A New Trend	3_CleanMax Presentation for CII Data Centre.pptx
04/17/2005	Calculating Energy Savings Using High Efficiency Power Conversion (UPS, AC-DC & DC-DC Power Supply) in Server Applications (Tool) This Excel-based calculator provides a first-order estimate of the magnitude of the energy savings based on improving the efficiency of any one or more of the elements (UPS, AC-DC and DC-DC power supply) involved in powering a rack of servers	UPS_Energy Savings Calculator_0.xls
04/17/2015	Calculating Energy Savings Using High Efficiency DC Power Architecture in a Server Application (Tool) This Excel-based calculator provides a first-order estimate of the magnitude of the energy savings based on converting an AC-based powering architecture to a DC-based powering architecture for a rack of servers.	dc_server_powering_ calculator.xls
11/02/2020	Building the Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Data Centers The energy intensity of data centers means that energy efficiency improvements have the potential to deliver substantial energy (and monetary) savings to an organization.	Building the business case for energy efficiency in data centers.pdf
06/05/2020	Breakthrough Data Center Design: NetApp-Bangalore Campus	Data Centre_Presentation_NetApp.pdf
03/24/2014	Binghamton University - Institute for Energy Efficiency Systems The Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), works in partnership with government, industry and academia to develop systematic methodologies for efficiently
06/21/2017	Better Buildings, Better Data Centers: Applying Best Practices Workshop Presentation Slides from Dale Sartor's presentation on best practices at the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference.	CHESC Data Center Workshop 062017 (1).pdf
08/08/2016	Better Buildings, Better Data Centers: Applying Best Practices Presentation slides from Dale Sartor's Data Center Energy Efficiency Best Practices Workshop. The workshop was hosted as an Energy Exchange pre-training event in Providence, Rhode Island.	EnergyExchangeDCworkshop_082016.pdf
04/21/2016	Better Buildings, Better Data Centers: Applying Best Practices Presentation given by Dale Sartor at Rocky Mountain Green 2016 in Denver, Colorado April 21-22, 2016.	RockyMountainGreen_Sartor042016.pdf
08/10/2015	Better Buildings, Better Data Centers: Applying Best Practices Presentation slides from Dale Sartor's Data Center Energy Efficiency Best Practices Workshop. The workshop was hosted as an Energy Exchange pre-training event in Phoenix, Arizona.	Energy Exchange DC Workshop_08102015.pdf
02/04/2015	Better Buildings Challenge The Better Buildings Challenge supports commercial and industrial building owners by providing technical assistance and proven solutions to energy efficiency.
03/01/2011	Best Practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Data Center Design This guide provides an overview of best practices for energy-efficient data center design which spans the categories of Information Technology (IT) systems and their environmental conditions, data center air manage-ment, cooling and electrical systems,	eedatacenterbestpractices.pdf
07/13/2020	Best Practices for Modernizing Vintage Data Centers This white paper discusses the benefits and challenges of upgrading the data center’s infrastructure components and outlines best practices for successfully planning, implementing and testing those renovations.	Best practices for modernizing vintage data centers.pdf
06/01/2006	Best Practices for Data Centers: Lessons Learned from Benchmarking 22 Data Centers Over the past few years, the authors benchmarked 22 data center buildings. From this effort, we have determined that data centers can be over 40 times as energy intensive as conventional office buildings.	aceee-datacenters.pdf
10/01/2012	Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency: Labs21 Workshop - San Jose, CA 2012 Presentation from the Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency: Labs21 Workshop in San Jose, CA. Author(s): Sartor, D.	dc-labs21-10-1-2012.pdf
02/25/2015	Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency Seminar, Santa Clara 2015 Presentation from seminar organized by Dale Sartor and hosted by the Technology Convergence Conference Santa Clara. Topics covered:	Sartor TCC Data CenterSeminar Feb 2015.pdf
09/05/2013	Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency - New Delhi, India 2013 Presentation from the Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency workshop, hosted by Data Center Dynamics. Author(s): Sartor, D.	dc-ee-dcd-09-05-2013.pdf
05/25/2012	Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency - Mumbai, India 2012 Presentation given at the Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency workshop, hosted by Data Center Dynamics in Mumbai, India. Author(s): Sartor, D.	dc-dynamics-5-25-2012.pdf
09/01/2012	Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency - Hyderabad, India 2012 Presentation given at the Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency workshop at the Green Building Congress in Hyderabad, India. Author(s): Sartor, D.	dc-ee-gbc-11-1-2012.pdf