Pitt Turner from ComputerSite Engineering Inc. and the Uptime Institute explains different ways to measure IT energy consumption in this podcast from the Data Center Design Charrette in Santa Fe, N.M., last week. Turner weighs the pros and cons of measuring at the uninterruptible power supply, or UPS, versus the power distribution unit to determine how much energy is going to servers and how much power is going to the data center infrastructure.

 

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