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From Lauraibm

Full article: Mapping the Green Road (9-Aug-07)

In the third quarter the industry should see documents from the Green Grid addressing data collection, there will also be a data centre efficiency baseline market study identifying the key factors that drive companies to take action on data centre power consumption. At the end of the year development will begin on a database focused on data centre characteristics and performance that organisations may ultimately benchmark themselves against.

The aim is to enable the collection of data that will be needed on a real time basis; this will provide guidance for the design of future data centres and operations of existing ones.

There are a number of areas where data centre efficiency could improve, including cooling techniques and a move to things being on a lower power state so they can be brought on when they are needed as opposed to the current state of data centres being “always on”.