Alliances

Global warming is a top-priority issue requiring an urgent, global-scale response. Recognizing that radical technological innovation has a critical role to play in achieving harmony between our economic and social activities and the global environment, Japan has created the "Cool Earth-Innovative Energy Technology Program" for the development of new technologies from a long-term perspective. Green IT Promotion Council believes that IT and electronics technologies can make a major contribution to realizing these new technologies, and believes that the greater economic, logistical and administrative efficiency achieved through the sophisticated control and management enabled by IT and electronics technologies will generate greater productivity and greater energy efficiency in all economic and social activities, contributing substantially to reducing the environmental burden. At the same time, full-scale IT introduction is expected to boost international information flows by around 200 times by 2025. This information explosion will also vastly increase the number of IT devices in use, positioning the energy consumption of IT devices themselves as a key issue. The Japanese government has developed the "Green IT Initiative" as a means of achieving a balance between environmental protection and economic growth. The Green IT Promotion Council was established on 1 February 2008 as an industry-government-university partnership for promoting concrete action under this initiative.

GIPC and TGG are collaborating on a number of fronts related to Data Center energy efficiency, including: metrics enhancement, metrics development, technology sharing and promotion of efficiency metrics. Collaboration on processes and technologies to measure and improve data center energy efficiency will enable end-users to receive the industry’s - and region’s - best practices for efficiency improvements, which benefits government agencies as they develop energy efficiency programs.