Tag: watt lies beneath series
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Watt Lies Beneath Part 2: Power was the assumption. Proof Is the price of admission
Watt Lies Beneath, Part 2: an ongoing series examining the evolving infrastructure, regulatory, and power constraints shaping the global data centre industry by Matthias Haymoz, Executive Director, SDEA. Whatever drew data centres to their sites – fibre, taxes, talent, hydro, cool air – every version of the map rested on one unexamined assumption: the grid…
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Watt Lies Beneath series, Part 1: The efficiency you were sold was measured on a mild day
Watt Lies Beneath, Part 1: a series of articles by Matthias Haymoz, Executive Director, SDEA. Data centre efficiency figures are quoted like fixed properties of a building. They aren’t. PUE moves with the weather, the load, and the age of the infrastructure – and the number in the brochure was almost always recorded under the…