The Green Grid
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| Formation | February 26, 2007[1] |
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| Type | Non-profit |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
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| Membership | 35+ |
| Website | Official website |
The Green Grid is a nonprofit, industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of data centers.
As business demands increase, so does the number of data center facilities which house a rising amount of IT equipment. Data center managers run into resource limits on electrical power, cooling, and space.
History
[edit]An initial announcement in April 2006 included members Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.[2]
They were soon joined by Intel and Microsoft.
By February 26, 2007, APC by Schneider Electric, Rackable Systems, SprayCool (later part of Parker Hannifin), and VMware had joined the effort, and a meeting in April 2007 was announced.[1]
In March, 2011, the Green Grid proposed a new sustainability metric, Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE), which attempts to take into account the amount of water used by data centers in their cooling systems[3]
In April 2019, The Green Grid became an affiliate member of the Information Technology Industry Council.[4]
Participants
[edit]In 2015, the Board of Directors had the following members:[5]
- Cisco Systems
- Dell
- Digital Realty
- EMC
- Emerson Network Power
- Hewlett-Packard
- IBM
- Intel
- Schneider Electric
- Siemens
In 2007, the Board of Directors had the following members:[6][7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Chris Preimesberger (April 10, 2007). "Green Grid Plans First Technical Summit". eWeek. Archived from the original on January 22, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ Don Clark and Jim Carlton. "Tech Giants to Unveil Power-Usage Plan: AMD, IBM, Rivals To Focus on Efficiency Of Servers, Data Centers". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ Green Grid website, 'WP#35-Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE™): A Green Grid Data Center Sustainability Metric, retrieved 4 Sep 2015
- ^ "The Green Grid splits after acquisition by ITI". www.datacenterdynamics.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ "Members". Web site. The Green Grid. Archived from the original on April 14, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
- ^ Ashlee Vance (February 23, 2007). "Intel and Microsoft plug into the Green Grid". Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Members". Web site. The Green Grid. Archived from the original on April 14, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
External links
[edit]- The Green Grid - official website
- Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (February 26, 2007). "Green Grid Looks For New Data Center Energy-Efficiency Ideas". Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
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