Uptime Institute research supporting this paper strongly suggests that it is possible for a large-scale enterprise data center to meet business requirements for Information Technology (IT) availability and performance while profitably achieving or exceeding many if not all corporate environmental sustainability objectives. This paper defines four factors for determining relative data center greenness. These metrics enable energy and power consumption benchmarking and continuous improvement processes.

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