Data Center Sustainability Metrics

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

PUE has many limitations, see here.

Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)

Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE)

Cloud Computing Sustainability Metrics

Carbon Emissions of Cloud Computing#Metrics

🔗 References

Data Center Metrics

Research

EEUI: a new measure to monitor and manage energy efficiency in data centers

Reddy, V. D., Setz, B., Rao, G. S. V. R. K., Gangadharan, G. R., & Aiello, M. (2017). Metrics for Sustainable Data Centers. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2(3), 290–303. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2017.2701883