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Date	Title	Files and Links
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
06/05/2020	Breakthrough Data Center Design: NetApp-Bangalore Campus	Data Centre_Presentation_NetApp.pdf
05/20/2020	Opportunities for ESPCs in Data Centers This webinar, held by the CoE in May 2020, reviewed how energy savings performance contracts (or ESPCs) could be leveraged as a financing mechanism to reduce the barriers for energy efficiency in data centters.	Data Center ESPC Webinar-PPT_0.pdf
05/01/2020	An Evolution in Liquid Cooling: LBNL 50B-1275 as a Case Study This case study summarizes the energy efficiency measures (and outcomes) implemented in Building 50B, Room 1275 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.	LiquidCooling.CaseStudy.pdf
04/08/2020	Lessons Learned in Achieving Data Center Efficiency Goals – 3 Case Studies Today, data centers account for roughly 2 percent of the total U.S. electricity use, and national computational demand is expected to grow at a fast pace. Data center energy consumption can be reduced by 20 to	2017_09_11_17_7x24 Exchange_Better Buildings Reyher_Breland_Sartor.pdf
03/23/2020	Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates Data centers represent the information backbone of an increasingly digitalized world.	Masanet_et_al_Science_2020.full_.pdf
02/22/2020	ISO 50001 FAQs FAQs on the practical implementation and benefits associated with ISO 50001 certification.
02/22/2020	EPEAT Registry The EPEAT Registry contains a searchable database of certified data center equipment available for purchase.
01/13/2020	Global Experiences with HPC Operational Data Measurement, Collection and Analysis As we move into the exascale era, supercomputers grow larger, denser, more heterogeneous, and ever more complex.	Global Experiences with HPC Operational Data Measurement, Collection and Analysis.pdf
01/13/2020	A Supercomputing Center Case Study with Cooling Control Design After designing and implementing an automated control system for a new HPC center, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) elected to use a simpler operator-based solution.	A_Supercomputing_Center_Experience_With_Cooling_Control_Design.pdf
01/13/2020	Investigative Report on Electrical Commissioning in HPC Data Centers The Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Working Group (EE HPC WG) has assembled a small diverse team to write a short investigative report on electrical commissioning.	Investigative_Report_on_Electrical_Commissioning_in_HPC_Data_Centers.pdf
12/06/2019	Designing and Managing Data Centers for Resilience (Webinar Recording) This COE webinar recording describes demand response and microgrid technologies, the business case for their deployment, and proven examples of their implementatio
11/20/2019	HPC Energy Efficiency in the Exascale Era Slide deck from the a Keynote delivered by Jeff Broughton (LBNL) at the energy efficiency workshop at the Super Compute 2019 conference.	SC 2019 EE HPC Keynote V2.pdf
10/30/2019	ECBC 2017 This is the 2017 Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) last updated in 2019. In accordance with section 14(p) of the Energy Conservation Act 2001 the purpose of the Energy Conservation Building Code (Code) is to provide minimum requirements for	ECBC_22June2017_printed_Nov2019 Final1 (4).pdf
10/14/2019	Data Center Blueprint Summit Materials Data Center Bluprint Summit \| Mumbai \| September 2019 Resources related to the Energy Efficiency in India Initiative from the “Building Data Center Ecosystem Conducive to India’s Digital Convergence” Data Center Blueprint Summit, hel	CII Data Center Blueprint Summit_Agenda.pdf CII Data Center Blueprint Attendance Sheet.pdf A Joint Initiative of IGBC and LBNL US for Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers.pdf Making Datacenters Resilient and Efficient.pdf Data is the Future, The Future is Datacentre.pdf Delivering Business Value through Better Aligning Facility & IT.pptx
10/07/2019	16 More Ways to Cut Energy Waste in the Data Center Generate ideas on how to reduce energy waste in your data center with ENERGY STAR's recommended energy efficiency actions, available here.
10/07/2019	5 Simple Ways to Avoid Energy Waste in Your Data Center These five measures can save a significant amount of energy and are fairly easily implemented.
10/07/2019	ENERGY STAR: Data Center Energy Efficiency Success Stories This page, hosted on the ENERGY STAR website, contains case studies and return of investment (ROI) su
10/01/2019	Green Procurement Compilation Tool This green procurement compilation tool helps federal agencies identify green data center equipment and
09/24/2019	Data is the Future, The Future is Datacentre Slide deck presentation from the September 24th, 2019 Data Center Blueprint Summit held in Mumbai.	CII Deck Sep 2019 Final PABLA STT.pptx
09/24/2019	A Joint Initiative of IGBC and LBNL US for “Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centres” Slide deck presentation from the September 24th, 2019 Data Center Blueprint Summit held in Mumbai.	IGBC and LBNL Initiative of EE in DCs.ppt
09/24/2019	Making Datacenters Resilient and Efficient Slide deck presentation from the September 24th, 2019 Data Center Blueprint Summit held in Mumbai.	How to make data centre resilient efficient - Copy.pptx
09/24/2019	Delivering Business Value through Better Aligning Facility & IT Slide deck presentation from the September 24th, 2019 Data Center Blueprint Summit held in Mumbai.	CII Mumbai_Align F&IT_24-Sep-19.pptx
09/24/2019	Data Center Blueprint Summit 2019 Agenda and Attendance sheet from the 2019 Data Center Blueprint Summit held in Mumbai.	CII Data Center Blueprint Summit_agenda_24Sep.pdf Building Data - Attendance Sheet.pdf
09/14/2019	Data Center Case Study: Crown Castle Case study on Crown Castle's recent data center energy efficiency upgrade, which leveraged available utility incentives.	111 8th Loop Optimization 2019.pdf