Today is episode 6 of our green series. Anyone new to this green data center series of podcasts, welcome – to give a brief overview, we started with the software and how well-written software is actually a green imperative contrary to what a lot of people think. Then we zoomed out to the server hardware and electrical systems. Then last week we took a weird interlude to wax philosophical regarding why anybody should care about green. Now we are looking at an extremely important and often overlooked aspect of green data centers – Automation. We’re going to talk about How data centers are built and commissioned, how PUE gets metered and the problems with that, how building automation works and how that ties into data centers, and finally what is on the horizon to make data centers run more efficiently just by improving automation.

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