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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