EN 50600-4-6:2020
(Main)Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 4-6: Energy Reuse Factor
Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 4-6: Energy Reuse Factor
This document: a) specifies the Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) as a KPI to quantify the reuse of the energy consumed in the data centre; b) defines the measurement, the calculation and the reporting of ERF; c) describes the application of ERF and its discrimination from Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). The ERF does reflect the efficiency of the reuse process, which is not part of the data centre.
Informationstechnik - Einrichtungen und Infrastrukturen von Rechenzentren - Teil 4-6: Faktor der Energiewiederverwendung
Technologie de l’information - Installation et infrastructures de centres de traitement de données - Partie 4-6: Facteur d’énergie renouvelable
Le présent document: a) spécifie le facteur d’énergie renouvelable (ERF), à titre de KPI, afin de quantifier la réutilisation de l’énergie consommée dans le centre de traitement de données; b) définit le mesurage, le calcul et la génération de rapports de l’ERF; c) décrit l’application de l’ERF et sa différence par rapport à l’efficacité de l’utilisation de l’énergie (PUE). L’ERF ne reflète pas l’efficacité du processus de réutilisation, qui n’est pas pris en charge par le centre de traitement de données.
Informacijska tehnologija - Naprave in infrastruktura podatkovnih centrov - 4-6. del: Faktor ponovne uporabe energije
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2020
Informacijska tehnologija - Naprave in infrastruktura podatkovnih centrov - 4-6.
del: Faktor ponovne uporabe energije
Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 4-6: Energy
Reuse Factor
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 50600-4-6:2020
ICS:
27.015 Energijska učinkovitost. Energy efficiency. Energy
Ohranjanje energije na conservation in general
splošno
35.110 Omreževanje Networking
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 50600-4-6
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
July 2020
ICS 35.020; 35.110; 35.160
English Version
Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures
- Part 4-6: Energy Reuse Factor
To be completed Informationstechnik - Einrichtungen und Infrastrukturen von
Rechenzentren - Teil 4-6: Faktor der
Energiewiederverwendung
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Contents Page
Introduction . 4
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviations and symbols . 7
3.1 Terms and definitions . 7
3.2 Abbreviations . 7
3.3 Symbols . 8
4 Applicable area of the data centre . 8
5 Determination of Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) . 9
6 Measurement of E and E . 10
Reuse DC
7 Application of Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) . 11
8 Reporting and trend tracking of Energy Reuse Factor . 11
8.1 Reporting of Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) . 11
8.1.1 Standard construct for communicating ERF data . 11
8.1.2 Data for public reporting of ERF . 11
8.2 Recommendations for trend tracking data . 12
8.3 ERF derivatives, interim ERF . 12
Annex A (informative) Examples of ERF use . 13
Annex B (informative) Energy Conversion Factors — Energy Measurement at the Data Centre
Boundary . 20
Bibliography . 21
List of Figures
Figure 1 — Schematic relationship between the EN 50600 series of documents . 5
Figure 2 — Simplistic data centre components and boundary . 9
Figure A.1 — Reuse of data centre waste heat . 13
Figure A.2 — Schematic showing reuse of heat within the data centre . 14
Figure A.3 – Reuse of heat with heat pumps inside a data centre . 16
Figure A.4 – Reuse of heat with heat pumps or heat exchangers outside a data centre only . 17
Figure A.5 – Reuse of waste heat with heat pumps and liquid cooled parts . 18
Figure A.6 – Reuse of waste heat with mixed arrangements . 19
List of Tables
Table B.1 — Energy measurement methods at the data centre boundary . 20
European foreword
This document (EN 50600-4-6:2020) has been prepared by CLC/TC 215 “Electrotechnical aspects of
telecommunication equipment”.
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which this document has (dop) 2021-01-17
to be implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
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• latest date by which the national (dow) 2023-07-17
standards conflicting with this document
have to be withdrawn
This document is based on the text of ISO/IEC DIS 30134-6:2019.
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rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CENELEC by the European Commission and
the European Free Trade Association.
Introduction
The unrestricted access to internet-based information demanded by the information society has led to an
exponential growth of both internet traffic and the volume of stored/retrieved data. Data centres are housing
and supporting the information technology and network telecommunications equipment for data processing,
data storage and data transport. They are required both by network operators (delivering those services to
customer premises) and by enterprises within those customer premises.
Data centres need to provide modular, scalable and flexible facilities and infrastructures to easily
accommodate the rapidly changing requirements of the market. In addition, energy consumption of data
centres has become critical both from an environmental point of view (reduction of carbon footprint) and with
respect to economic considerations (cost of energy) for the data centre operator.
The implementation of data centres varies in terms of:
a) purpose (enterprise, co-location, co-hosting, or network operator facilities);
b) security level;
c) physical size;
d) accommodation (mobile, temporary and permanent constructions).
The needs of data centres also vary in terms of availability of service, the provision of security and the
objectives for energy efficiency. These needs and objectives influence the design of data centres in terms of
building construction, power distribution, environmental control and physical security. Effective management
and operational information is required to monitor achievement of the defined needs and objectives.
The EN 50600 series specifies requirements and recommendations to support the various parties involved in
the design, planning, procurement, integration, installation, operation and maintenance of facilities and
infrastructures within data centres. These parties include:
1) owners, facility managers, ICT managers, project managers, main contractors;
2) architects, consultants, building designers and builders, system and installation designers;
3) facility and infrastructure integrators, suppliers of equipment;
4) installers, maintainers.
At the time of publication of this document, the EN 50600 series comprises the following standards and
documents:
— EN 50600-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 1: General
concepts;
— EN 50600-2-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-1: Building
construction;
— EN 50600-2-2, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-2: Power
distribution;
— EN 50600-2-3, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-3:
Environmental control;
— EN 50600-2-4, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-4:
Telecommunications cabling infrastructure;
— EN 50600-2-5, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-5: Security
systems;
— EN 50600-3-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 3-1:
Management and operational information;
— EN 50600-4-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-1: Overview
of and general requirements for key performance indicators;
— EN 50600-4-2, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-2: Power
Usage Effectiveness;
— EN 50600-4-3, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-3: Renewable
Energy Factor;
— EN 50600-4-6, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-6: Energy
Reuse Factor;
— EN 50600-4-7, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-7: Cooling
Efficiency Ratio;
— CLC/TR 50600-99-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 99-1:
Recommended practices for energy management;
— CLC/TR 50600-99-2, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 99-2:
Recommended practices for environmental sustainability;
— CLC/TR 50600-99-3, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 99-3:
Guidance to the application of EN 50600 series.
The inter-relationship of the standards within the EN 50600 series is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 — Schematic relationship between the EN 50600 series of documents
EN 50600-2-X standards specify requirements and recommendations for particular facilities and
infrastructures to support the relevant classification for “availability”, “physical security” and “energy efficiency
enablement” selected from EN 50600-1.
EN 50600-3-X documents specify requirements and recommendations for data centre operations, processes
and management.
EN 50600-4-X documents specify requirements and recommendations for key performance indicators (KPIs)
used to assess and improve the resource usage efficiency and effectiveness, respectively, of a data centre.
In today’s digital society data centre growth, and power consumption in particular, is an inevitable
consequence and that growth will demand increasing power consumption despite the most stringent energy
efficiency strategies. This makes the need for key performance indicators that cover the effective use of
resources (including but not limited to energy) and the reduction of CO emissions essential.
NOTE Within the EN 50600-4-X series, the term “resource usage effectiveness” is more generally used for KPIs in
preference to “resource usage efficiency”, which is restricted to situations where the input and output parameters used to
define the KPI have the same units.
In order to enable the optimum resource effectiveness of data centres a suite of effective KPIs is needed to
measure and report on resources consumed in order to develop an improvement roadmap.
These standards are intended to accelerate the provision of operational infrastructures with improved
resource usage effectiveness.
This document specifies the Energy Reuse Factor (ERF), i.e. the reuse of the energy consumed in a data
centre.
This document is intended for use by data centre managers. The use of the Energy Reuse Factor as a key
performance indicator provides data centre managers with greater visibility into energy efficiency in data
centres that make beneficial use of any reused energy from the data centre.
Additional standards in the EN 50600-4-X series will be developed, each describing a specific KPI for
resource usage effectiveness or efficiency.
The EN 50600-4-X series does not specify limits or targets for any KPI and does not describe or imply, unless
specifically stated, any form of aggregation of individual KPIs into a combined nor an overall KPI for data
centre resource usage effec
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