the Green Grid

An initial announcement in April 2006 included members Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.{{Cite news |title= Tech Giants to Unveil Power-Usage Plan: AMD, IBM, Rivals To Focus on Efficiency Of Servers, Data Centers|author= Don Clark and Jim Carlton |work= The Wall Street Journal |url= https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117244447482018755 |accessdate= June 5, 2013 }}

They were soon joined by Intel and Microsoft.

By February 26, 2007, APC by Schneider Electric, Rackable Systems, SprayCool (later part of Parker Hannifin), and VMware had joined the effort, and a meeting in April 2007 was announced.{{Cite news |title= Green Grid Plans First Technical Summit |work= eWeek |url= http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Green-Grid-Plans-First-Technical-Summit/ |archive-url= https://archive.today/20130122131337/http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Green-Grid-Plans-First-Technical-Summit/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 22, 2013 |date= April 10, 2007 |author= Chris Preimesberger |accessdate= June 5, 2013 }}

In March, 2011, the Green Grid proposed a new sustainability metric, Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE), which attempts to take into account the amount of water used by data centers in their cooling systems[http://www.thegreengrid.org/en/Global/Content/white-papers/WUE Green Grid website, 'WP#35-Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE™): A Green Grid Data Center Sustainability Metric, retrieved 4 Sep 2015]

In April 2019, The Green Grid became an affiliate member of the Information Technology Industry Council.{{Cite news|title=The Green Grid splits after acquisition by ITI|url=https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/green-grid-splits-after-acquisition-iti/|access-date=2021-04-07|website=www.datacenterdynamics.com|language=en}}

In 2015, the Board of Directors had the following members:{{Cite web |title= Members |work= Web site |publisher= The Green Grid |url= http://www.thegreengrid.org/about-the-green-grid/member-list.aspx |accessdate= September 19, 2015 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110414180231/http://thegreengrid.org/about-the-green-grid/member-list.aspx |archivedate= April 14, 2011 }}

• Cisco Systems
• Dell
• Digital Realty
• EMC
• Emerson Network Power
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• Intel
• Schneider Electric
• Siemens

In 2007, the Board of Directors had the following members:{{cite news |title=Intel and Microsoft plug into the Green Grid |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/23/greengrid_intel_microsoft/ |date=February 23, 2007 |author=Ashlee Vance |author-link=Ashlee Vance |accessdate=2008-03-26}}{{Cite web |title= Members |work= Web site |publisher= The Green Grid |url= http://www.thegreengrid.org/about-the-green-grid/member-list.aspx |accessdate= June 4, 2013 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110414180231/http://thegreengrid.org/about-the-green-grid/member-list.aspx |archivedate= April 14, 2011 }}

• AMD
• APC
• Dell
• EMC
• Emerson Network Power
• HP
• IBM
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Oracle
• Symantec

• Green computing

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• [http://www.thegreengrid.org/ The Green Grid] - official website
• {{cite news |title=Green Grid Looks For New Data Center Energy-Efficiency Ideas |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197008155 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126150943/http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197008155 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 26, 2013 |date=February 26, 2007 |author=Marianne Kolbasuk McGee |accessdate=2008-03-26 }}

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