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Most of the metrics commonly used today measure the energy effciency potential of a resource, system or application usage, rather than the energy effciency of the actual usage. In this paper, we argue that the way that the resources and systems are actually used in a given data center configuration is at least as important as the effciency potential of the raw resources or systems. Hence, for data center energy effciency, we suggest to both select energy effcient components (as done today), as well as optimize the actual usage of the components and systems in the data center. To achieve the latter, optimization of usage centric GPI metrics should be employed and targeted as a primary green goal. 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