https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/28/spec-gets-serious-about-datacenter-energy-metrics/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:21:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/28/spec-gets-serious-about-datacenter-energy-metrics/#comment-198490 Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:21:29 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141283#comment-198490 The utility of the SERT 2 score in comparison shopping for servers will hopefully become clearer with broadening adoption and reporting (like miles-per-gallon or liters-per-100km) as it currently looks like the result of a somewhat complicated (compound) calculation. I do think it will help foster some quite useful innovations from server designers though, as there is no real point in wasting a high-quality energy source (such as electricity) by generating waste heat, that then requires more elecricity to remove from the datacenter. In a related but slightly off-topic note, it seems that using low-quality energy sources (wood chips, coal, natural gas, etc…) to generate electricity, and then use that electricity to generate heat at home (a plan in California), seems rather more wasteful than using these sources directly to generate that heat in the home (without the double-conversion).

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