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Is WUE (Water Usage Effectivness) available ?

Recommendation 

Energie

A People

A Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

*

Priority

High

Récurrence

Periodic

Tests

Is WUE (Water Usage Effectiveness) below 1 L/kWh ?

Precisions

The total water consumed by the data center gives the overall efficiency of the entire infrastructure.

Use Case

Hosting technical documentation tracks energy and water consumption and IT equipements certifications

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

WUE <= 1L/kwh = 100 ; WUE > 1L/kwh = 0 / 100

Life cycle

Administration

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 ?

Recommendation

Location

Does the water used come from the drinking water supply ?

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

Does the provider subscribe to best practives for datacenters ?