Reading Room
General
- Blazek, M, S. Rhodes, F. Kommomen and E. Weidman. 1999. "Tale of Two Cities: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment for Telecommunications Systems: Stockholm, Sweden and Sacramento, CA", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronics and Environment, IEEE, May 11-13, 1999.
- Clark, D. 2005. "Power-Hungry Computers Put Data Centers in Bind - Newer Hardware Guzzles Electricity and Spews Heat, Requiring Costly Alterations." Wall Street Journal, p. A1 (14 November). [download]
- Energy Design Resources. 2005. "Lowering the Energy Use of Data Centers." Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Enews, Issue 47. [download]
- Energy & Power Magazine. 2005. "Group Studies DC Power in Data Centers." November 21. [download]
- Makower, J. 2005. "Sun Shines a Light on Efficiency." [download]
- Shamshoian, G., M. Blazek, P. Naughton, R.S. Seese, E. Mills, and W. Tschudi. 2005. "High-Tech Means High-Efficiency: The Business Case for Energy Management in High-Tech Industries." Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report. [download]
- Shamshoian, G., M. Blazek, P. Naughton, R. Seese, E. Mills, and W. Tschudi. 2005. "High-Tech Means High-Efficiency." Forbes. November 18. [download]
Design Guidelines and Process
- GSA/FEMP. 2009 "Quick Start Guide to Increase Data Center Energy Efficiency" [download]
- ASHRAE. "Design Considerations for Data and Communications Equipment Centers." American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Technical Committee 9.9. (Chapter 13 deals directly with energy efficiency). [download]
- Building Operating Management. "Software Helps Keep Energy-Efficient Designs On Track." August, 2004, p. 32. [download]
- Engineered Systems. "Design Intent Tool." June 30. [download]
- Mills, E., D. Abell, G. Bell, J. Faludi, S. Greenberg, R. Hitchcock, M.A. Piette, D. Sartor, and K. Stum. 2002. Design Intent Tool: User Guide.Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [download]
IT Equipment
- Ecos Consulting and EPRI Solutions. 2005. "High-Performance Buildings: Data Centers — Server Power Supplies." [download]
- Scientific American. "Power-Thrifty PCs," June, p. 31. [download]
- Stansberry, M. 2005. "Power-Saving Technologies in the Data Center." TechTarget Network (November 10). [download]
Commissioning & Operations
- Hydeman, M., R. Seidel, and C. Shalley. 2005. "Staying On-line: Data Center Commissioning." ASHRAE Journal, April. pp. 60-65. [download]
- Meyers, S., E. Mills, A. Chen, and L. Demsetz. 1996. "Building Data Visualization for Diagnostics, Operator Feedback, and Performance Optimization." ASHRAE Journal, June, pp. 63-73. [download]
- Mills, E., H. Friedman, T. Powell, N. Bourassa, D. Claridge, T. Haasl, and M.A. Piette. 2004. "The Cost-Effectiveness of Commercial-Buildings Commissioning: A Meta-Analysis of Energy and Non-Energy Impacts in Existing Buildings and New Construction in the United States." LNBL-56637. [download]
Green Buildings
- Kats, G., A. Berman, J. Perlman, L. Alevantis, and E. Mills. 2003. "The Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Buildings: A Report to California's Sustainable Building Task Force." Capital E, Washington D.C. [download]
- U.S. Green Building Council. N/D. "Making The Business Case for High Performance Green Buildings." USGBC, Washington, DC., 12 pp. [download]
Case Studies
- AEPC Group, LLC. 2003. "Naval Post Graduate School: Detail HVAC Assessment: Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center (Building 700)." [download]
- Blazek, M., H. Chong, W. Loh, and J.G. Koomey. 2004. "Data Centers Revisited: Assessment of the Energy Impact of Retrofits and Technology Trends in a High-Density Computing Facility," Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 10(3):98. [download]
- Rumsey Engineers. 2003. "Data Center Energy Benchmarking Case Study: Facility 8." [download]
Best Practices
- Energy Design Resources
- Rocky Mountain Institute. 2003. "Design Recommendations for High-Performance Data Centers: Report of the Integrated Design Charette." [download]
- Tschudi, W., P. Rumsey, E. Mills, S. Greenberg. 2005. "Measuring and Managing Energy Use in Data Centers." HPAC Engineering (in press), LBNL/PUB-945. [download]
- Tschudi, W.F., Xu, D. Sartor, and D. Stein. 2003. "High Performance Data Centers: A Research Roadmap." LBNL-53483. [download]
Benchmarking
- LBNL Self-Benchmarking Guide
- Tschudi, W.F., P. Sreedharan, T. Xu, D. Coup, and P. Roggensack. 2003. "Data Centers and Energy Use – Let's Look at the Data." ACEEE Conference Paper. [download]
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