BAIS Co-location Facility is Energy Star Qualified

BAIS datacenter facility meets U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Guidelines for Superior Energy Efficiency 2011

"Products that earn the ENERGY STAR prevent greenhouse gas emissions by meeting strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.”

Guiding Principles for Data Center Efficiency Metrics

As business demands and energy costs for data centers rise, owners and operators have focused
on the energy efficiency of the data center as a whole, frequently using energy efficiency metrics.
However, the metrics are not always applied clearly and consistently. To address these
inconsistencies, a group of leaders from across the industry met on January 13, 2010 to agree on
data center energy efficiency measurements, metrics, and reporting conventions. Organizations
represented included the 7x24 Exchange, ASHRAE, The Green Grid, Silicon Valley Leadership
Group, U.S. Department of Energy Save Energy Now and Federal Energy Management
Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR Program, U.S. Green
Building Council, and Uptime Institute.
The following guiding principles were agreed to:
• Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) using source energy consumption is the preferred
energy efficiency metric for data centers. PUE is a measurement of the total energy of the
data center divided by the IT energy consumption.
• When calculating PUE, IT energy consumption should, at a minimum, be measured at
the output of the uninterruptible power supply (UPS). However, the industry should
progressively improve measurement capabilities over time so that measurement of IT
energy consumption directly at the IT load (e.g., servers, storage, network, etc.) becomes
the common practice.
• For a Dedicated Data Center, the total energy in the PUE equation will include all energy
sources at the point of utility handoff to the data center owner or operator. For a Mixed-
Use Data Center, the total energy will be all energy required to operate the data center,
similar to a Dedicated Data Center, and should include cooling, lighting, and support
infrastructure for the data center operations.

For more information, please visit: http://www.energystar.gov