2008 Strategies for Green IT at Penn
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Questions for the Team to Consider
The following list is meant as a first stab at general categories for further examination:
| Considerations | Data Centers | Servers | Desktops/Laptops | Printers | Handhelds/Peripherials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtualization | X | X | |||
| Electricity | X | X | X | X | X |
| HVAC | X | ||||
| E-Waste | X | X | X | X |
Subcommittees
At the initial kickoff meeting, we decided to break out the larger Green IT team into two subcommittees.
Each group will be tasked with focusing on their subtopic, including testing and generating documentation. Please use this wiki for all documentation development so that we may have a history of what the group did.
Resources
General Information
- Penn's electrical cost per kWh: $0.07
- Penn's electrical usage for the past year was 418,619,550 kwhrs
- Total cost: 29,303,368
- If we assume an arbitrary 30% increase in costs after electrical rate caps are removed in 2010, we would see an $10M increase in costs at today's electrical usage levels.
URLs
Education
- Penn's existing GreenIT page
- Business Services Sustainability page
- Colorado University Green Computing
- University of Delaware GreenIT page
- University of Michigan Green Computing
- PennConnects Growing Greener
- SUNY Buffalo Green Computing
- The Mack Center for Technology Innovation's Green Technologies Conference in June 2008
- Penn Purchasing Services - Green Purchasing
- Harvard's Computing advice
Everyone Else
- Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool
- GreenerComputing.com
- IDC Green IT
- Philadelphia Going Green
- Information Week article on Green IT September 1, 2007
- Gartner article on Green IT December 7, 2007
- Gartner articles relating to Green IT
- WorldChanging.com article on Green Computing
- Note: This is article 4 in a 4 part series. Parts 1-3 are linked from within the article.
- CIO.com 6 ways to a More Efficient Data Center
- EPEAT - Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool
- EPEAT currently covers computer desktops, laptops, and computer monitors. Required for all Federal purchases.
- ComputerWorld's Top 10 Green IT Users / Vendors
- EPA Enterprise Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiatives
Vendors
- IBM: Project Big Green
- What is a Green Data Center? (IBM video, 13MB)
- Virtualization in the Green Data Center (IBM video, 5MB)
- Dell Earth
- They're committment to sustainability, energy calculators, products and initiatives. Lots of fancy Flash!
- Apple and the Environment with energy usage calculator
Pre-Existing Green IT Frameworks
- Berkeley Labs Data Center Energy Management
- Offers the tools and information to capture cost-effective savings opportunities during the design of new data centers or the retrofit of existing ones.
- SUN - Greening the Campus Data Center
- SUN - Eco Innovation
- Recommends 3-part process: Assess, Optimize, Virtualize; Provides kits, offers calculators and resources
- The Green Grid
- "...global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems..."
- 5 habits for greener computing
Articles
- No-Cost and Low-Cost Ways to Green Your Data Center Right Now From GreenerComputing.com
Documents
- Best Practices for Data Centers (pdf)
- The Green Grid's Guidelines for Energy Efficient Data Centers (pdf)
