| Green Grid calls for data centre energy efficiency techniques adoption |
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October 7, 2009 At a forum hosted by NYSE Euronext, The Green Grid presented new tools and reports to help business leaders and data centre managers improve efficiency in their operations. Representatives from The Green Grid, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy (along with executives from a variety of industries) shared their challenges with data centre energy management and offered practical steps for improvement. The Green Grid presented the results of a recently completed assessment of a mid-tier data centre operated by EPA, along with recommendations for next steps that EPA can follow to improve efficiency. “We applaud EPA’s leadership in opening up their operations to this level of examination, and we encourage other organizations to work with us to develop standards and explore ways they can improve their own operations,” said John Tuccillo, The Green Grid chair. “If the EPA can deploy techniques that improve efficiency by 20%, they can save $15,000 per year in this one data centre. IDC estimates that there are 75,000 similar-sized data centres across the United States and, if all of them could achieve that same level of savings, more than $1.1 billion in annual energy costs could be avoided in data centres across the country.” The Green Grid continues to assist the DoE in testing and validating the DC Pro tool, an online software tool provided by DoE to help industries identify how energy is being consumed by their data centre(s) and identify the best opportunities for savings. The two are now working together to enhance the software tool suite by: ensuring common energy metrics between The Green Grid tools, DC Pro and the Energy Star portfolio manager tool; developing an IT energy assessment module and; creating a complementary Certified Energy Practitioner program where data centre energy professionals would perform energy assessments using DC Pro. The Green Grid also announced new free online tools and maps designed to help data centre and facilities managers in Japan and 33 European countries easily determine how much outside air (‘free cooling’) is available for individual data centres. These new tools provide with real-world data to help lower energy consumption and related costs. Finally, The Green Grid introduced a new free online tool for data centre managers to record their Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) scores that will establish global consistency in reporting the split between energy flowing to IT equipment and facility operations. THE GREEN GRID |
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