What is BS EN 50600-3-1 - Data centre facilities and infrastructures?
BS EN 50600-3-1 is the first subpart of the third multi-series standard that focuses on the overview of and general requirements for key performance indicators of data centre facilities and infrastructures
BS EN 50600-3-1 specifies the following for the other standards in the EN 50600-4-X series:
- A common structure
- Definitions, terminology and boundary conditions for KPIs of data centre resource usage effectiveness and efficiency
- Common requirements for KPIs of data centre resource usage effectiveness and efficiency
- Common objectives for KPIs of the data centre resource effectiveness and efficiency
- General information regarding the use of KPIs of data centre resource usage effectiveness and
- Efficiency
Who is BS EN 50600-3-1 - Data centre facilities and infrastructures?
BS EN 50600-3-1 on overview of and general requirements for key performance indicators is useful for:
- Owners, facility managers, ICT managers, project managers, main contractors 
- Architects, consultants, building designers and builders, system and installation designers 
- Facility and infrastructure integrators, suppliers of equipment 
- Installers, maintainers
Why should you use BS EN 50600-3-1 - Data centre facilities and infrastructures?
Data centres are housing and support the information technology and network telecommunications equipment for data processing, data storage and data transport.
BS EN 50600-3-1 help you with:
- Minimization of energy and other resource consumption;
- Effectiveness of it load (processing, storage and transport) within the data centre, maximizing it output with the minimum energy consumption;
- Reuse of unconsumed resources (e.g., Energy reuse in the form of waste heat);
- Utilization of renewable energy, both generated on-site and off-site.
Overall, BS EN 50600-3-1 helps you to measure and monitor progress in each individual area so as to justify investment in resource usage effectiveness or efficiency measures and plan further improvements.
