The True TCO Calculator is a free resource from the Uptime Institute that provides a comprehensive framework for modeling the real life-cycle costs of building and operating a data center. The calculator captures key data-center cost components, including site infrastructure capital costs, computer equipment costs, energy bills and other operating expenses to characterize the estimated costs to build and operate a new data center. A white paper, “A Simple Model for Determining True Total Cost of Ownership for Data Centers,” is also available.

The calculator characterizes a high-density, high-performance computing facility housing financial services applications. The design offers high-level financial, IT and data-center facilities analysts and decision makers the opportunity, for example, to evaluate trade-offs between more energy-efficient computing equipment and infrastructure capital costs and the energy costs to operate over the anticipated life of the facility.
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