Life of the Data Center Jedi
Operational Sustainability
All the articles I write are based on my personal views and do not represent the views of the company I currently work for
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Data centers are the foundation of our digital world
Originally designed, built and operated for only one purpose: availability
Now it is mainly about sustainability

A passion for operational sustainability
Finding the balance between the availability and sustainability of data centers
Measurement & Reporting
Correct and transparant measurement and reporting of the data center performance KPI’s
Energy efficiency
The first and most important step in becoming sustainable is to reduce the energy consumption
Water efficiency
Evaporating water is a very energy efficient method to cool the IT equipment in data centers but it has to be sustainable
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- Cloud (1)
- Datacenter Jedi (7)
- Dutch Datacenter Association (5)
- Energy Efficiency Directive (2)
- Equinix (3)
- EU Code of Conduct for data centers (2)
- European Commission (3)
- European Union Data Centre Association (3)
- ISO/IEC 30134 (5)
- Sustainability (6)
- Uptime Institute (2)
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