Interxion has participated as a Contributor Member of The Green Grid for two years and served an important role in a number of projects, most notably in the development of practical universal metrics for energy and power efficiency. Interxion will also be hosting developed an Energy Efficiency Roadmap Seminar, which is scheduled for September 2010 and will feature speakers from The Green Grid, The Uptime Institute, APC by Schneider Electric, and the European Commission DG JRC.
As well as supporting The Green Grid in its work to develop and promote energy efficiency for data centers and business computing ecosystems, Interxion has benefited hugely from the advice that The Green Grid has delivered over the past two to three years. Most notably, Interxion has adopted the following TGG tools and procedures:
- Monitoring of energy ratio (PUE) in all 27 data centres since 2004
- Energy-efficient component selection within design engineering requirements
- includes deployment of free-air-cooling in all new builds since 2006
- Monthly internal overview of energy-efficiency covering all of the 11 countries in which the company operates
- Energy metering and providing energy-efficiency measurements to customers on request
- Best practice advice on energy-efficient implementation for customers
Macquarie Telecom
As a Hosting provider who owns and operates Data Centers, power consumption is a major input cost for Macquarie Telecom. This has been exacerbated by the trend of increasing virtualization and blade computing environments increasing the overall power requirements. The benefits of The Green Grid membership are twofold.
Firstly, membership of The Green Grid enables Macquarie Telecom to leverage the combined knowledge of the industry community and to ensure we are across the latest developments and best-practices in Energy Efficiency. An example of this is the work undertaken by The Green Grid to raise awareness of the PUE metric. Monitoring the PUE metric has resulted in direct Data Center efficiency improvements. The ability to measure PUE means we can set PUE targets and track progress and results accordingly. Macquarie Telecom is also able to access the available tools and documentation, radically reducing the time required to sift and search through unqualified information.
Secondly, membership in The Green Grid provides Macquarie Telecom with the opportunity to contribute to any ongoing industry wide standardization efforts on energy consumption reporting and regulation initiatives. It helps underpin Macquarie Telecom’s commitment to like-minded customers by demonstrating that we are taking responsibility and doing our part in the changing context of the carbon-constrained future.