Measuring dollars to servers: A lot of the talk about data center efficiency is about the costs. Energy and data center real estate cost a lot of money. But what are the servers worth? How much money is the computer making for your company? Jonathan Koomey, from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and Stanford University, developed the recent measurements of server energy use. He says we need to prod industries to come up with a value for servers or computing units rather than just focus on the costs. In this podcast from the Uptime Institute Data Center Design Charrette, he describes how that could be accomplished.

 

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