Data centers
PUE
Power Usage Effectiveness: total facility energy divided by the energy used by IT equipment. A value closer to 1 means less energy is spent on overheads like cooling.
Why it matters
PUE is a common efficiency measure for data centers, but it should be compared only when measured the same way.
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