As IT evolves and budgets tighten, it’s not just IT staff roles and workflows that are changing—data center designs themselves also need to be updated. An energy-efficient data center is one of the best ways to save on costs. There are a variety of ways to cut down on energy use without sacrificing hardware’s reliability and performance, including:
- Choosing energy-efficient computing hardware.
- Using virtualization and consolidation to run more workloads on less equipment.
- Designing efficient data center cooling systems with an eye toward new techniques like free and liquid cooling.
- Gaining better control over data center energy consumption with the PUE metric.