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Does the water used come from the drinking water supply ?

Recommendation 

Location

C People

A Planet

C Prosperity

Difficulty

**

Priority

Low

Récurrence

Once

Tests

Is the water supply source verified?

Precisions

There is no unnecessary water treatment required to cool the data center. Consequently, the use of drinking water is unnecessary.

Use Case

Technical documentation tracks water sources

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

Formalized = 100 ; Planned = 75 ; Identified = 50 ; Ignored = 0 / 100

Life cycle

Utilisation

15 other criteria related to the recommendation: Reduce the impact of hosting

Recommendation Essential

Location

Is the waste from the data center recovered or recycled ?

Recommendation Essential

Energy

Is PUE (Power Usage Effectivness) available ?

Advice

Location

Does cooling affect groundwater ?

Advice

Location

Does the location of the data center affect the ecosystem nearby ?

Advice

Location

Is the quality of the water degraded by its use in the data center ?

Advice

Location

Is the data center causing noise pollution ?

Advice

Energy

Is any of the produced indirect energy (heat) reused ?

Recommendation

Energy

Is the building LEED / BDM certified or equivalent ?

Recommendation

Energy

Is the cooling optimized based on accurate temperature analysis ?

Advice

Energy

How and on what criteria is cooling optimized ?

Advice

Energy

Does the data center infrastructure take cooling constraints into account ?

Recommendation

Energy

Are the server power supplies efficient ?

Recommendation

Energy

Is the occupancy rate of the datacenter rooms optimized to improve the energy balance ?

Recommendation

Energie

Is WUE (Water Usage Effectivness) available ?

Recommendation

Energie

Does the provider subscribe to best practives for datacenters ?