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Google Discloses Datacenter PUE of 1.21

Henry Hsu
October 9, 2008

While Google has typically closely guarded details regarding their data centers as a competitive advantage, the company recently disclosed a weighted-average PUE of 1.21. This is nothing short of astounding; one data center even posted a quarterly average PUE of 1.13! Google shares some of the ways they achieve such efficiency here, albeit at a very high-level.

Recently, Raritan used our own data center tools to determine our corporate PUE, and we're very proud to have achieved a PUE of 1.6—which is below today’s average. However, we have quite a ways to go before catching up to Google. Our efforts to date have been chronicled in our white papers.

If you are unfamiliar with the PUE metric, Google does a pretty good job of explaining it—although The Green Grid is still considered the canonical source.

To learn how Raritan can improve your data center PUE, click here.

Your data center PUE could benefit from Raritan’s Power Management solutions.

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