European Data Centers Get LEED-Like Sustainability Rating

GreenBiz.com (Jan 12 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. LONDON, United Kingdom — Although the leading green building certification standards, such as LEED and BREEAM in the U.K., can all be applied to data center operations, those ratings don't do a lot to help keep costs and greenhouse gas emissions down once the compute facilities are up and running. And although groups like The Green Grid have developed a number of metrics to help green IT operations for IT managers and CIOs, green data centers remain a piecemeal affair. A new certification, launched last month by the British Computer Society, aims to bring together the best practices for data center operations, and give owners a LEED-like rating as a badge of green quality. (Read Full Article)

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