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Re: Google's PUE
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding () t1r com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:15:29 -0400
I am really skeptical of this, Patrick. PUE's of between 1.2 and 1.3 - sure. But below 1.2 on an annual basis? And its not even their newest facility. Color me skeptical.
- Dan On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
[#include: boiler-plate apology for operational content] Google has released its PUE numbers: <http://www.google.com/corporate/datacenters/measuring.html>There is a nice explanation of this, including a graph showing why DC efficiency is more important than machine efficiency (on the second page) at this link:<http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/01/google-the-worlds-most-efficient-data-centers/ >I think GOOG deserves a hearty "well done" for getting a whole DC under 1.2 PUE for a whole year. (Actually, I think they deserve a "HOLY @#$@, NO @*&@#-ing WAY!!!")Personally, I think only a self-owned DC could get that low. A general purpose DC would have too many inefficiencies since someone like Equinix must have randomly sized cages, routers and servers, custom-built suites, etc. By owning both sides, GOOG gets a boost. But it's still frickin' amazing, IMHO.For their next miracle, I expect GOOG to capture the waste heat from all their servers and co-gen more electricity to pump back into the servers. :-)-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: Google's PUE, (continued)
- Re: Google's PUE Deepak Jain (Oct 01)
- Re: Google's PUE Marshall Eubanks (Oct 01)
- Re: Google's PUE Andy Grosser (Oct 02)
- Re: Google's PUE Jean-François Mezei (Oct 01)
- RE: Google's PUE Alex Rubenstein (Oct 01)
- Re: Google's PUE Daniel Golding (Oct 02)
- Re: Google's PUE Deepak Jain (Oct 01)
- Re: Google's PUE Jeff Shultz (Oct 01)
- Re: Google's PUE Brian Raaen (Oct 02)
- Re: Google's PUE Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 02)
- Re: Google's PUE Tony Finch (Oct 03)