Looks like the Green Grid has quite a job ahead...

At the recent Data Center Decisions conference, organizers found that while many attendees were planning new data centers, few were making theirs expressly green.

When users at the Data Center Decisions conference were asked if they planned to build a new data center within the next year, a sea of hands went up. Unfortunately, when the 300 or so attendees were asked if their companies are aggressively investigating "green" infrastructures, few hands went up.

Sadness. But wait, shouldn't LEED help in this regard?

Because LEED was created with office buildings in mind, the standard drives "perverse" design incentives for data centers to earn credits for certification: for example, adding bike racks to reduce vehicle emissions instead of giving credits for making infrastructure change -- like using server virtualization -- that save power, Stansberry said.

Ooh, that burns me up. Luckily, organizations including the aforementioned Green Grid, the Uptime Institute and EPA are lobbying for a LEED-DC standard.

Lobby hard, friends!