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 An initial announcement in April 2006 included members Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. 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. 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 In April 2019, The Green Grid became an affiliate member of the Information Technology Industry Council.
Participants In 2015, the Board of Directors had the following members:
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:
AMD APC Dell EMC Emerson Network Power HP IBM Intel Microsoft Oracle Symantec
See also Green computing
References
External links The Green Grid - official website Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (February 26, 2007). "Green Grid Looks For New Data Center Energy-Efficiency Ideas". Retrieved 2008-03-26.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)