Best Practices From The Green Grid Drive Ebay’s New Data Center
The Green Grid has released a case study detailing its industry best practices as they helped drive member company eBay to achieve new levels of energy efficiency in its recently completed data center in Phoenix, Ariz. eBay relied on The Green Grid’s Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric and Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) to guide the design and construction, request-for-proposal (RFP) process, and server optimization for its desert-located facility named “Project Mercury.”
Faced with the challenge of consolidating its data centers and deploying tens of thousands of new servers in less than six months, eBay turned to The Green Grid to help achieve maximum energy efficiency for a brand new facility. eBay used The Green Grid’s best practices to take a holistic, end-to-end view of the space it was using, the servers it was deploying, and how its data centers were designed and operated.