White Paper #45 - Data Centre Life Cycle Assessment Guidelines</h1> <article> <h1>White Paper #45 - Data Centre Life Cycle Assessment Guidelines</h1> <p>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:17:00 GMT</p> <p> </p> <p>Increasingly, both the public and private sectors are interested in determining a product or organization’s environmental impact, also referred to as its environmental footprint. Whether for policy making, regulation compliance, or customer information purposes, environmental impact assessments are growing in importance and frequency. <br /><br />A number of entities have developed methodologies and tools for assessing environmental impacts and most can be applied to a data centre. The Green Grid does not seek to develop yet another methodology or calculate the environmental impacts of a particular data centre, but rather to provide a framework and rules that can be used by organizations around the world to describe the specifics of their data centres in a consistent manner, so that all the different methodologies can evaluate a data centre’s environmental impacts in the same way. <br /><br />TGG’s framework is intended to be used by data centre owners, renters, and operators as a common basis in order to harmonize environmental impact studies. This white paper introduces the framework, highlights supporting industry standards, and discusses how to identify and uniformly describe the key elements of a data centre for the purposes of conducting a comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) of a data centre’s full environmental impacts.</p> </article> <article> <h1>White Paper #46 - Updated Air-Side Free Cooling Maps: The Impact of ASHRAE 2011 Allowable Ranges</h1> <p>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:17:00 GMT</p> <p> </p> <p>In May 2011, the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) published updated guidelines for the “Recommended” and “Allowable” temperature and humidity of data centers. The new specification created two new classifications of data centers and expanded the range of Allowable environmental conditions in order to encourage energy efficiency practices like air-side economization. The Green Grid published Free Cooling maps in 2009 based on the ASHRAE 2008 Recommended ranges for temperature and humidity. Now, with the wider Allowable ranges, new maps showing the expanded potential for free cooling are needed to encourage design teams to incorporate these energy saving techniques. </p> </article> <article> <h1>White Paper #40 - Energy Efficiency Measures In Japan: Case Studies</h1> <p>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT</p> <p>This white paper aims to help domestic data centers improve their energy efficiency activities by providing case studies about successful energy efficiency projects throughout Japan. These case studies take into account situations such as geography, regulations, culture, and operating management standards.</p> </article> <article> <h1>CS#1-Breaking New Ground on Data Center Efficiency</h1> <p>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT</p> <p>This case study examines how eBay’s “Project Mercury” used PUE, TCO and DCMM best practices to drive the end-to-end data center ecosystem.</p> </article> <article> <h1>White Paper #44 - Energy Policy Research and Implications For Data Centres In EMEA</h1> <p>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:30:00 GMT</p> <p> <strong>This white paper is available to members of The Green Grid at no cost. The public can purchase it for $200 USD.</strong> </p> <p>Energy security, energy prices and climate change have dramatically risen up the policy agenda, resulting in a comprehensive policy framework in many countries. The growth of data centres, along with their energy intensity, means the industry will be particularly affected by legislation driving efficiency of design, build and operations — above and beyond the business impacts of increasing cost of energy and of carbon.</p> <p> This study summarises the key policy mechanisms affecting the data center industry across a selection of countries in EMEA, focusing on: </p> <ul> <li>The regulatory obligations placed upon data centres operating in the country </li> <li>The voluntary mechanisms within the country, with the impacts on reputation </li> <li>The financial incentives targeting investment in low carbon technologies and practices </li> <li>The financial costs associated with energy and carbon, aiming to incentivise action <br /></li> </ul> </article> </main></body></html>