Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Term defined elsewhere          
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation            
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Introduction to best practices for green data centres             
        5.1     Role of best practices 
        5.2     Value of practices        
 6     Planning, utilization and management of data centres           
        6.1     Involvement of organizational groups
        6.2     General policies            
        6.3     Resilience level and provisioning           
 7     ICT equipment and services               
        7.1     Selection of new ICT equipment           
        7.2     Selection of new telecom equipment 
        7.3     Deployment of new ICT services           
        7.4     Management of existing ICT equipment and services 
        7.5     Data management      
 8     Cooling        
        8.1     Airflow design and management          
        8.2     Cooling management 
        8.3     Temperature and humidity settings    
        8.4     Computer room air conditioners           
        8.5     Re-use of data centre waste heat        
 9     Data centre power equipment         
        9.1     Selection and deployment of power equipment           
        9.2     Management of power equipment     
10     Other data centre equipment         
       10.1     General practices       
11     Data centre building             
       11.1     Building physical layout            
       11.2     Building geographic location  
12     Monitoring               
       12.1     Energy use and environmental measurement               
       12.2     Energy use and environmental collection and logging
       12.3     Energy use and environmental reporting         
       12.4     ICT reporting
13     Design of network
14     Cloud data centre 
       14.1     High flexibility              
       14.2     High-density data centre         
       14.3     Management optimization     
15     Optimization of energy management of whole data centre               
       15.1     Optimization of energy management by an integrated control of ICT devices and facility    
Annex A – Possible methodology for cooling data centres by using  renewable energy in cold regions    
        A.1     Data centres in cold regions    
       A.2      General matters relating to data centre cooling             
       A.3      Outdoor air cooling     
        A.4     Snow and ice cooling 
        A.5     Method of cooling data centres in cold regions              
Annex B – Possible methodology for cooling data centres with high-density ICT devices    
        B.1     Outline of air conditioning methods    
        B.2     Selection of cooling systems suited to data centre specifications           
Annex C – Practical solutions for correcting airflow direction for equipment    
        C.1     Requirements for correcting airflow direction for equipment  
Annex D – Minimum data set for controlling data centre equipment for energy saving management in data centres    
Annex E – Verification experiments related to increase of efficiency of air-conditioning and control technologies at a data centre    
        E.1     Overview        
        E.2     Data centre energy model       
        E.3     Control method to minimize energy consumption        
        E.4     Control system configuration 
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