Green Grid announces roadmap to efficient data center nirvana

Green Grid reps stressed today that understanding and then defining energy efficiency has to come before any plans to increase it. Having metrics to measure energy efficiency at the level of an entire data center has been a longstanding problem in the business, and one that makes it difficult to do comparisons between facilities. The Green Grid wants to develop a common set of such measurements, or to build on the work of other groups where such metrics have already been developed.

Once that's done (hopefully by the third quarter of this year), the group will embark on an "efficiency baseline study" to see what sorts of practices data center managers are following now in regards to energy efficiency. Eventually, it will compile a database so that data center owners can see how their facilities compare to others in the business.

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