Friendly Datacenters with Green Grid.

AMD, APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun Microsystems and VMware are members of a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers around the globe. The Green Grid takes a broad-reaching approach to data center efficiency focusing on data center "power pillars" that span the gamut of technology, infrastructure and processes present in today's data center environments. The consortium's working focus includes research, standards writing, published studies and continuing education.
Their mission statement is;
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and information service delivery by:

* Defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics

* Developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve performance against the defined metrics

* Promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies.

I think with millions of computers in use everyday, a WATT saved per processor becomes a MEGAWATT project.
I also replaced one of my workstation/server combo with a dual core AMD X2 processor that only uses 65 WATTs. I am looking forward to those 25 WATT processors.

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Tags: Green Grid, energy efficient standards, green computing