Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity, is encouraging its customers and data center operators throughout North America to participate in a rare opportunity to define a range of criteria applicable to a future ENERGY STAR™ Data Center Infrastructure Rating. When completed, the rating will help data center operators assess the energy performance of their building’s infrastructure assets and compare their performance to their peers across the United States.
In close collaboration with Emerson Network Power and other industry partners, the U.S. EPA is looking for more than 100 organizations with 1,000-square-feet and greater data centers to voluntarily sign-up within the next month to provide energy use and other data that will help develop the ENERGY STAR Data Center Infrastructure Rating. The official deadline to submit an expression of interest to the EPA and to initiate data collection is June 1. Participants must collect 12 consecutive months of IT and building (whole building if stand-alone or data center portion only if within a larger building) energy use data, and submit this data no later than June 1, 2009.
