Microsoft – Power Usage Effectiveness for Data Center

Microsoft Data Center

Microsoft has set some benchmarks for their Data Center of the future.   “A key driver is our goal to achieve a PUE (power usage effectiveness) at or below 1.125 by 2012 across our data centers”, said Michael Manos, general manager of global foundation services at Microsoft.

Source: http://loosebolts.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/our-vision-for-generation-4-modular-data-centers-one-way-of-getting-it-just-right/