Facility Operations & Maintenance | The Green Approach
"Green Thinking" is an environmental fact and data centres must comply with the need to reduce energy consumption to become more efficient.
With businesses demanding reductions in power consumption and needing to comply with regulations and initiatives to reduce their carbon footprint, the Facilities Management structure is a key asset in the battle to achieving these targets. Many businesses are know endorsing initiatives not only to improve costs but also to comply with governmental legislation.
The following are some of the key initiatives and codes of conduct that are now directly impacting upon data centre environments:
With businesses demanding reductions in power consumption and needing to comply with regulations and initiatives to reduce their carbon footprint, the Facilities Management structure is a key asset in the battle to achieving these targets. Many businesses are know endorsing initiatives not only to improve costs but also to comply with governmental legislation.
The following are some of the key initiatives and codes of conduct that are now directly impacting upon data centre environments:
The Green Grid is a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to provide industry-wide recommendations on best practices, metrics and technologies that will improve overall data centre and business computing energy efficiencies.
A non-profit group of consumers, businesses and conservation organizations dedicated to promoting smart technologies that can improve the power efficiency and reduce the energy consumption of computers.
Created in response to increasing energy consumption with data centres and the need to reduce related environmental, economic and energy supply impacts. The aim is to inform and motive data centre operators and owners to reduce energy consumptions in a cost effective manner, without effecting the mission critical function of the data centre.
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The Carbon Trust created by the UK governement to help businesses and public organizations to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, through improved energy efficiency and developing commercial low cardon technology.
A joint program of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
Help hundreds of companies win more business through developing robust carbon & sustainability credentials. They help make business and their products/services carbon neutral with high quality carbon offsets. They also help organizations with great ideas to reduce energy & transport costs.
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