ITI LAUDS DATA CENTER EFFICIENCY PROVISION IN HOUSE ENERGY LEGISLATION
06.19.2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ITI LAUDS DATA CENTER EFFICIENCY
PROVISION IN HOUSE ENERGY LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Information
Technology Industry Council (ITI) President Rhett Dawson today praised the
inclusion of a key data center efficiency provision in energy legislation slated
for markup this week in the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy
and Air Quality.
“The data center provision embodies one of the technology industry’s
top priorities: helping the nation move toward energy independence through
innovation,” Dawson said. “It creates an excellent framework
for industry leadership in the development of energy efficiency benchmarks
and goals. It also approaches data centers as entire systems, which optimizes
efficiency.”
“We applaud the leadership of Energy and Commerce Chairman Dingell and
Energy Subcommittee Chairman Boucher and thank Rep. Eshoo for her efforts on
this important legislation,” Dawson added. “ITI has worked
closely with Rep. Eshoo’s office to help construct the appropriate legislative
framework for this issue, and the data center efficiency language in the bill
crafts an appropriately balanced public-private partnership that enhances the
high tech industry’s achievements on this important issue.”
The data center efficiency provision would:
- Establish a voluntary, industry-led data center efficiency program that
will be responsible for developing efficiency information (standards, benchmarks,
and specifications) for data centers as systems (as opposed to individual
components).
- Require the designation of an energy efficiency organization, subject to
certain criteria, to lead the efficiency program.
- Require DOE and the EPA to adopt the program’s standards and specifications
for the purposes of those agencies’ own efficiency programs (e.g. Energy
Star and FEMP).
- Authorize $250,000 to DOE and EPA each to cover any costs incurred in the
initiation of the program or adoption of its standards.
ABOUT ITI
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) represents the nation’s
leadinghigh-tech companies and is widely recognized as the tech industry's
most effective lobbying organization in Washington. ITI helps member
companies achieve their policy objectives through building relationships with
Members of Congress, Administration officials, and foreign governments; organizing
industry-wide consensus on policy issues; and working to enact tech-friendly
government policies.
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ITI member companies include Accenture, Agilent Technologies, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, Canon U.S.A., Cisco, ca, Corning, Dell, Eastman Kodak, eBay, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lenovo, Lexmark, Micron, Microsoft, Monster, National Semiconductor, NCR, Oracle, Panasonic, SAP, Sony Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Symbol Technologies, Tektronix, Texas Instruments, Time Warner, Unisys, Verisign and Vonage.
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