But if you do that, I'm not sure what would even differentiate them. They're all using essentially the same hardware. They all have the same cooling requirements. I wouldn't expect an average to be very interesting.
But if you do that, I'm not sure what would even differentiate them. They're all using essentially the same hardware. They all have the same cooling requirements. I wouldn't expect an average to be very interesting.
Distance from carbon-neutrality per dollar of revenue sounds like a good start.
Keep it simple, just publish how much power they're using and what the sources are.
Google reports an average PUE[1] of 1.11 over the past year, 1.09 over the past quarter, and the latest/best data centers are at 1.06 [2]. In simple terms this means that the total power overhead for cooling etc is just 6% of that to power the machines in them.
Google (and others) have gone to great lengths using AI, and radical new ideas for cooling.
Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not in Datacenters. All info public domain
[1] Definition of PUE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness
[2] Source: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/
However: one could say that these companies are now big enough that it is reasonable to start demanding that these companies source the energy in a climate-friendly way. I think it's not at all unreasonable to demand that when Google or Amazon builds massive new data centers to be responsible about how those data centers are powered.