Data Center Standard Proposal Adds WEE To PUE

judgecorp writes: A proposed revision to the data center efficiency standard will delight the infantile by adding WEE to PUE. Seriously, PUE is widely used to compare data center efficiency, but critics say it is unfairly biased to sites in the Northern Hemisphere which can use evaporative cooling, and ignores the environmental impact of water use by data centers. Simply adding the evaporative energy of water to a measure based on electrical energy will face a lot of opposition however — on various grounds including science and marketing.

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Summarize better when introducing new acronyms.

[Anonymous Coward]

WEE = water equivalent energy

Re:Summarize better when introducing new acronyms.

[nitehawk214]

The submittor knew that hardly anybody would know what these random acronyms would mean, and the editors simply don't give a shit. Standard slashdot. Well played.

Re:Summarize better when introducing new acronyms.

[judgecorp]

Agreed. I wrote TFA and did the WEE-PUE headline for fun. You are also right - this is a sort of false accounting, designed to match wishful thinking by DX vendors and data center operators in unfavourable climates. Peter Judge

save your pageclicks.

[nimbius]

PUE (power usage effectiveness)
WEE (water equivalent energy)
and somewhere at datacenter dynamics magazine theres a giggling intern that needs to be shown the door.

Re:save your pageclicks.

[gstoddart]

In correct English

No such thing. English is an amalgamation of a bunch of languages.

Glue rhymes with poo.

Anybody who tries to give a universal rule for English is going to be wrong in several corner cases. As evidence, I offer this, or this.

English is much less definable and explainable than people like to admit. Which is what makes it infinitely malleable and capable of doing things nobody thought of.

I'm not convinced there is a single rule which says "in English you always ..." which is actually accurate in all cases. Because English borrows words from Latin, French, German, Spanish, Gaelic .. and every other language which we ever encountered.

It's got more exceptions than most people will ever fully have a handle on. It's not that kind of language.

Re:save your pageclicks.

[Chas]

English does not "borrow" from other languages.
English corners other languages in dark alleys, hits them over the head, and then rifles through their pockets for loose grammar.

Here is an idea...

[bobbied]

Compare them using the REAL metric, total life cycle costs...How much does it cost to buy, operate and dismantle your data center when it's usefulness is over... That's the REAL question.

The rest of this PUE and WEE stuff is just window dressing and doesn't matter to ANY business beyond the PR value of claiming to be "green" or some such nonsense. If you want to be "green" slap up a solar panel farm or a windmill, or contract with your local power company for a % of renewable sourced electric power. Just call the cost what it really is, Public Relations and Advertisement.

for a native Brit, headline is hilarious

[ihtoit]

I don't know if you Yanks get it, but yeah, I laughed until I squirted milk out my nose.