Abstract
This guide provides an overview of best practices for energy-efficient data center design which spans the categories of information technology (IT) systems and their environmental conditions, data center air management, cooling and electrical systems, and heat recovery. IT system energy efficiency and environmental conditions are presented first because measures taken in these areas have a cascading effect of secondary energy savings for the mechanical and electrical systems. This guide concludes with a section on metrics and benchmarking values by which a data center and its systems energy efficiency can be evaluated. No design guide can offer “the most energy-efficient” data center design but the guidelines that follow offer suggestions that provide efficiency benefits for a wide variety of data center scenarios.
| Original language | American English |
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| Number of pages | 48 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Replaces March 2011 version: NREL/BR-7A40-47201NREL Publication Number
- NREL/TP-5R00-89843
Other Report Number
- DOE/GO-102024-6283
Keywords
- data center air management
- data center benchmarking values
- data center cooling
- data center design
- data center heat recovery
- data center metrics
- IT energy efficiency