Leveraging reserved data center resources to improve data center utilization

A method for facilitating increased utilization of a data center, comprising:

• receiving a request to perform power management to reduce power consumption of servers in a data center, wherein the request is received in response to an entity detecting that the power consumption of the servers in the data center exceeds a reduced total capacity of the electrical infrastructure of the data center;
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• sending power management commands to at least some of the servers in the data center in response to receiving the request.

A method for facilitating increased utilization of a data center, comprising:

• receiving power management commands for a plurality of servers in a data center, wherein the power management commands are received from a power management service, wherein the power management service sends the power management commands in response to an entity detecting that power consumption of servers in the data center exceeds a reduced total capacity of an electrical infrastructure of the data center;
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• performing power management with respect to at least some of the plurality of servers based on the power management commands.