Power Usage Effectiveness: What It Means and Why It Matters
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a fundamental metric for measuring how efficiently a data center consumes energy – especially crucial in today’s cloud-first, energy-conscious IT landscape. At its core, PUE is the ratio of a data center’s total energy consumption to the energy consumed by its IT equipment: PUE = Total facility energy / IT equipment energy A PUE of 1.0 represents the ideal – where every watt of energy supports computing, with none lost to cooling, lighting, or overhead. In the real world though, data centers require additional power to keep servers at optimal conditions, pushing PUE above 1.0. …
Measuring Embodied Carbon in Bespoke AHUs
Measuring the embodied carbon* of our bespoke AHUs is becoming more critical to our clients, as healthcare providers, commercial organisations and other industries seek to manage their own carbon footprint. Using CIBSE’s TM65 methodology, we are able to provide a mid-level embodied carbon calculation, along with the design data of each and every of our bespoke AHU products, from initial design stage. Whilst Environmental Product Declarations (EPD’s) are generally considered the most reliable method to assess the environmental impact of a product, including its embodied carbon, at every stage of its lifecycle, the development of EPDs requires the involvement of …
