The Green Grid is a nonprofit,

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of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of

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s. At one time it had more than 175 member companies. Membership starts at $3000, as of 2021. As business demands increase, so does the number of data center facilities which house a rising amount of IT equipment. Data center managers run into resource limits on electrical power, cooling, and space.

History

An initial announcement in April 2006 included members

Advanced Micro Devices Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufact ...

Dell Dell is an American based technology company. It develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell is owned by its parent company, Dell Technologies. Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...

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, IBM, and

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...

. They were soon joined by

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

and

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

. By February 26, 2007,

APC by Schneider Electric APC by Schneider Electric (formerly American Power Conversion Corporation) is a manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies, electronics peripherals, and data center products. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MG ...

, Rackable Systems, SprayCool (later part of

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), and

VMware VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware's desktop software ru ...

had joined the effort, and a meeting in April 2007 was announced.
In March, 2011, the Green Grid proposed a new sustainability metric, Water Usage Effectiveness ( WUE), which attempts to take into account the amount of water used by data centers in their cooling systems In April 2019, The Green Grid became an affiliate member of the

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Participants

In 2015, the Board of Directors had the following members: *

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...

Digital Realty Digital Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust that invests in carrier-neutral data centers and provides Colocation (business), colocation and peering services. As of December 31, 2019, the company owned interests in 225 operating ...

* EMC * Emerson Network Power *

* IBM *

Schneider Electric Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational company that specializes in digital automation and energy management. It addresses homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries, by combining energy technologies, real-time automation ...

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...

In 2007, the Board of Directors had the following members: *

AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufactur ...

* APC *

* EMC * Emerson Network Power * HP * IBM *

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* Symantec

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External links

The Green Grid
- official website * Nature conservation organizations based in the United States Renewable energy organizations based in the United States Information technology organizations Organizations established in 2007 Computers and the environment International organizations based in the United States Organizations based in Oregon {{nonprofit-org-stub

History

Participants

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