PUE

See also: pue, pué, pu'e, and pü

English

Proper noun

PUE

  2. Abbreviation of Puebla: a state of Mexico.

Noun

PUE (countable and uncountable, plural PUEs)

  2. Initialism of power usage effectiveness
    • 2015 December 16, Ingrid Burrington, “The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      Starting around 2006, power-usage effectiveness (PUE) has been the metric of choice for the data-center industry. PUE is a ratio created by the Green Grid Association, a consortia of IT industry professionals dedicated to “accountable, effective, resource-efficient, end-to-end ICT ecosystems.”
    • 2025 October 29, Mike Pearl, “China Submerges a Data Center in the Ocean to Conserve Water. Is That Even a Good Idea? Data centers are water and power hogs, but does putting them in the ocean help?”, in Gizmodo‎[2]:
      But China has big time ambitions around driving down the energy use of its data centers. According to one report, the power usage effectiveness (PUE) for data centers globally has fallen to about 1.56 on average and essentially plateaued. A press release on a Chinese government website last year stated that by the end of 2025, China will drive down its own average PUE to 1.5.
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