The Data Centre NABERS & Compliance Tsunami - A Wipeout or benefit for IT

Copyright July 2013 Green Global Consulting

NABERS Star Ratings

National Australian Built Environment Rating System: for Data Centre 13-02-2013

Offices, Hotels, Data Centres, ITGreenstar comparison

Why Data Centre Rating ?

Data Centres are currently treated differently

NABERS wanted to close the Loophole

Impact on Government policy

Data Centre rating is predominantly around

PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)

IT Workload rating (unique Au initiative)

based on number of cores+disk capacity

Star ratings measured in

CO2e emissions

The New Ratings x 3

The Green Grid

Uptime Institute Symposium

Christian Belady is the general manager of Data

Center Services for Microsoft

- The Application layer

- Tier 1 mirrored?

Where is the future in Energy Reduction?

ImpactsHow will NABERS impact business decisions?

Local Compliance – Compulsion

Global Compliance The thin end of the wedge –eg. ISO:SC39

Corporate governance and citizenship

Engagement with the market

Strategic procurement

State & Federal governments tenders

The RemedyMeasure, measure,

measure

Audits – to standards

Act, Act, Actwww.datacenterdynamics.com

NABERS AuditsInitial lessons learned - The early

PitfallsMeter ValidationRemote meter validationWhat data to recordWhere to record

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How about a PUE 1.1 DC NABERS 6 star?

Hot & Cold separation

Pressure control

Use of outside air economisers

Use of Quad generation (not piped gas but

rather using organics or ag waste – offers free

cooling and water – and uses aDsorption chillers

with COP of 5 instead of aBsorption chiller with

COP of 1.

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