The Green Grid to expand Board of Directors

As part of a strategic initiative, The Green Grid® Association, the leading industry voice on data centre and information technology (IT) resource efficiency, will increase the number of seats on its board of directors, the consortium’s governing body.

“While our metrics and best practices have benefited businesses across the globe in improving resource efficiency, The Green Grid is expanding its mission to drive responsible and accountable information and communications technology (ICT). Increasing and diversifying the board-level members aligns with this mission, as it will allow us to better represent our membership as well as the industry,” said John Tuccillo, chairman of the board for The Green Grid Association and ‎senior vice president, Industry and Government Affairs at Schneider Electric. “Our focus going forward is to help companies across all industries realise operational maturity across the entire ICT infrastructure and related networks. We will do this by providing frameworks throughout the energy and IT value chain that are designed to increase productivity and achieve efficiencies not otherwise achievable.”

Board-level members within The Green Grid currently include Cisco Systems, Dell Inc., EMC Corporation, Emerson Network Power, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Schneider-Electric. Representatives from these companies comprise The Green Grid’s board of directors and set the strategic direction for the organisation.
Companies who may be interested in becoming a board-level member of The Green Grid should contact the consortium’s administrative office:

admin@thegreengrid.org or +1 (503) 619-0653. Criteria for this level of membership includes (but is not limited to): domain expertise; nature of the organisation’s primary business (i.e. end user of ICT, data centre operator, utilities, energy companies, equipment vendor, etc.); and, the level of commitment to contribute to future deliverables and engagement needs of The Green Grid.

Formed in 2007, The Green Grid provides the global IT industry with metrics, tools and best practices to improve resource efficiency. The most notable of these include:
· Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE™) - A globally adopted measure of how efficiently a computer data centre uses energy; the ratio of total amount of energy used by a computer data centre facility to the energy delivered to computing equipment. The ideal PUE rating is “1”: all power going into the data centre is being used to power IT equipment.
· Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE™) - Calculates how efficiently a data centre is using water; the ratio of the annual water usage to how much energy is being consumed by the IT equipment and servers, and is expressed in liters/kilowatt-hour (L/kWh). The ideal value of WUE is zero, i.e. no water is used to operate the data centre.
· Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE™) - Measures the carbon emissions associated with operating a data centre (not its construction); a data centre’s total carbon emissions compared to the energy consumption of the data centre’s servers and IT equipment (the same one used for PUE). If a data centre is 100-percent powered by clean energy, it will have a CUE of zero.
· Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) - A detailed framework for data centre operators to benchmark data centre performance, determine levels of maturity, and identify ongoing steps and innovations necessary to achieve greater energy efficiency and sustainability.