PUE is dead. WUE is dying. The new metrics for AI-era facilities

PUE was a useful proxy for the air-cooled era. It rewards facilities for being efficient at the wrong things in a 100kW/rack world. Here is the metric stack we run on internally — and the one we believe will become the operating-floor standard by 2028.

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