Book a free Data Center PUE Health Check
In 15 minutes we show you not just where your facility is losing energy, but how to fix it — sensor facts, not opinions.
What we look at
PUE, measured honestly
Where your reported number comes from, and where the metering boundary may be flattering it.
Cooling efficiency
Setpoint headroom, containment, and the compressor runtime you may be paying for blind.
Power visibility
Whether you can meter where it matters — at the branch circuit, not just the PDU.
Stranded capacity
Power and floor space you've paid for that conservative thermal limits are leaving idle.
How the 15 minutes go
You bring the numbers
Your current PUE, a rough sense of your cooling setup, and where you think the problems are. No prep deck required.
We read the floor
A monitoring engineer walks through where heat and energy are likely concentrating, and where your visibility has gaps.
You leave with a list
Specific, prioritized things to measure or fix — written so you could hand it to your team and act on Monday.
Frequently asked
What is PUE?
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is the ratio of the total energy a data center draws to the energy that actually reaches the IT equipment.
A PUE of 1.0 is the theoretical ideal; the industry typically reports somewhere around 1.5 to 1.6. The gap above 1.0 is overhead — mostly cooling and power-distribution losses — and lowering it is where most efficiency work is concentrated.
What does the health check cover?
We walk through how your PUE is currently measured, where the metering boundaries may be flattering the number, and where heat and power are likely concentrating on your floor.
That includes cooling efficiency and setpoint headroom, branch-circuit power visibility, rack temperature monitoring coverage, and any stranded capacity your thermal limits may be leaving idle. You leave with specific, prioritized things to measure or fix.
How long does it take?
The call is 15 minutes. It's a working conversation with a monitoring engineer, not a sales presentation.
If a deeper review makes sense afterward we'll say so — but the 15-minute health check stands on its own and you're under no obligation to go further.
Do I have to buy anything?
No. The health check is free and there's no obligation.
Data Center Dispatch is published by AKCP, a monitoring vendor — we disclose that plainly. But the point of the call is an honest read on your facility, including the cases where the right answer is not to buy more hardware.