DOE’s Paul Scheihing gave a talk on what DOE is doing to improve data center energy efficiency. Scheihing is in charge of the Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) at DoE, http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/ into which data centers are classified.
Here are some of the projects DOE is working on:
DC-Pro—Free profiling software to show how power is consumed at a given data center; gives you both PUE and DCIE.
Training program—Under development with ASHRAE.
Certification—To certify professionals for energy assessment at data centers.
R&D—Stimulus money–based program; award to be announced in November.
Scheihing also talked about the DOE program called Save Energy Now.
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