http://www.thegreengrid.org/news/news_releases/

Portland, Ore. — April 21, 2008 — The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, today announced Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). The Green Grid’s agreement with the EPA will first promote energy efficiency in EPA computer facilities and then broadly share results in order to impact change within both other governmental agencies and the private sector. The alliance with SNIA, formally announced by SNIA earlier this month, is designed to further networked storage best practices for energy efficiency.

 

The Green Grid’s Memorandums of Understanding with the EPA and SNIA highlight the organization’s continuing efforts and progress in working with government agencies and key industry players to define and promote the adoption of standards, processes, measurements and technologies for energy efficiency in the data center.

Very cool, anything we can to to improve energy efficiency in the data center and in the business world has to be a good thing, whether we’re talking about best practice, new technical standards or technology. It will be interesting to see what developments/announcements come from this announcement - very cool.