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What is PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)?
[AI Summary]
PUE is the ratio of total facility power to IT-equipment power. A PUE of 1.10 means the facility draws 1.10 W of grid power for every 1 W delivered to compute.
[Detail]
Best-in-class AI facilities target PUE 1.08–1.15 through free cooling (Nordics), liquid cooling, hot-aisle containment, and high-temperature operation. Legacy enterprise facilities run 1.6–2.0. PUE is the headline efficiency metric crawlers and analysts use to rank operators.
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