The Green Grid has announced its support of the recently-released European Commission’s Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency.  The Code of Conduct is a voluntary commitment of European companies, aiming to reduce data centre energy consumption through the adoption of best practices leading to agreed energy saving targets.  

The European Commission's Joint Research Center is using the Data Centre Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) metric, defined by The Green Grid, as the metric for which data centres in the European Union will be measured for efficiency.  The DCiE metric helps data centre operators clearly determine how much energy is consumed by IT equipment and how much is consumed by the facility itself.  DCiE, the reciprocal of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, provides a way to determine opportunities to improve a data centre's operational efficiency, to compare efficiencies with competitive data centres and to determine opportunities to repurpose energy for additional IT equipment.

"The Green Grid applauds the achievements of the European Commission in creating the Code of Conduct for Data Centre Energy Efficiency," said John Tuccillo a director of The Green Grid.  "Finding a solution that helps data centres become more energy efficient is becoming critical for enterprises worldwide.  By ensuring that energy efficiency is measured in a way that is consistent around the world, stakeholders can be confident that over time they will be able to better manage the cost of energy consumed by their data centres.  The Green Grid supports the efforts of the European Union and looks forward to continuing our collaboration."