“As governments start to worry a little more about data centres and their energy use , we have a role to play ”

— Damian Farr , Managing Director Europe at DPR Construction uses the Power Usage Effectiveness ( PUE ) ratio between power drawn by infrastructure and power provided to equipment , with the ideal 1.0 meaning no power is wasted on anything else .

It is therefore necessary to build efficiency considerations into data centres from the beginning , affecting everything from building design to rack arrangement - a complex task considering the interaction of all these different parameters - and bringing down the PUE from the industry average of 1.67 .

SEPTEMBER 2020