July 17, 2006: Alliance Seeks to Reduce Data Center Power and Cooling Demand
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - A group of technology industry leaders has announced their intent to form The Green Grid to help reduce the growing power and cooling demands of data centers. AMD, HP, Sun Microsystems, and IBM represent the founding sponsors of The Green Grid, an open, global organization whose goals are supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Alliance to Save Energy. Members of The Green Grid seek to decrease data center and other IT facility energy usage patterns by defining and propagating best practices in data center operation, as well as construction and design. The Green Grid is intended to serve as an interactive resource for IT professionals, a forum for sharing proven practices in data center energy management as well as working with other organizations to identify new industry standards related to energy.
As an independent, nonprofit association, The Green Grid is open to any IT industry professionals with an interest in addressing energy consumption issues, particularly data center managers and IT operations executives. Founding membership is also open to companies such as systems integrators, utility companies, and anyone else concerned about energy efficiency issues in data centers.