Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Data centers are energy intensive, and opportunities exist to reduce energy use, but significant knowledge and skills are required to perform energy assessments. The Federal Energy Management Program’s (FEMP) Data Center Program assists federal agencies and other organizations with optimizing the design and operation of energy and water systems in data centers. It also funds the work at the Center of Expertise for Energy Efficiency in Data Centers (CoE) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. CoE develops and provides wide-ranging resources for managing data centers energy-efficiently. The main objective of this article is to provide an overview of the CoE’s Data Center Energy Efficiency Toolkit (Toolkit) and its free resources, including energy assessment simulation software, manuals, worksheets, templates, and listings. The Toolkit provides guidance on using the Tools in order to achieve energy efficiency and decarbonization in data centers. In our context, a “tool” refers to any resource for facilitating energy assessments. There is a FEMP on-demand webinar that provides additional information on the Toolkit: https://wbdg.org/continuing-education/femp-courses/fempodw140 A secondary objective is to increase awareness of the training courses offered by the Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) program (http://datacenters.lbl.gov/dcep), which is partially funded by FEMP. These courses include training on most of the resources in the Toolkit.