Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations. The Initiative was started in the spirit of WWF’s Climate Savers program which has mobilized over a dozen companies since 1999 to cut carbon dioxide emissions, demonstrating that reducing emissions is good business. Their goal is to promote development, deployment and adoption of smart technologies that can both improve the efficiency of a computer’s power delivery and reduce the energy consumed when the computer is in an inactive state. As participants in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, computer and component manufacturers commit to producing products that meet specified power-efficiency targets, and corporate participants commit to purchasing power-efficient computing products.
The Green Grid + CSCI Alliance
The Green Grid and CSCI are collaborating to develop feedback on ENERGY STAR and other similar resource efficiency programs from governments and non-governmental organizations around the world, develop power management definitions, requirements and criteria for servers and work on other activities as designated by jointly approved work registers and statements of work.