Remember all those milestones that The Green Grid laid out months ago? It turns out that they have been feverishly working to wrap up those whitepapers and today they wrote me to say their Technical Committee has new goodies for Green Grid members:

In the Qualitative Analysis of Power Distribution Configurations for Data Centers, The Green Grid identifies seven high-level configurations for power distribution in the data center. This paper is one of the first to consolidate the advantages and disadvantages of each of these power distribution configurations.

The Existing Data Center Energy Efficiency Metrics white paper is the industry’s first consolidated look at all existing organizations and metrics that are focused on energy efficiency in data centers and related IT equipment. The Green Grid will use this research to determine what areas are currently being addressed and, more importantly, what areas have the greatest need for energy efficiency metrics.

The updated version of the Data Center Efficiency Metrics White Paper refines the metrics first introduced by The Green Grid in February 2007 by more explicitly highlighting infrastructure efficiency. The Green Grid expects the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Datacenter Efficiency (DCE) metrics to be adopted by the industry and that, moving forward, all data centers will track and report their efficiencies using these metrics.

They also bring news that membership has swelled to 102 organizations and that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) to bolster the environmental and sustainability advocacy efforts of both. The group will also get the benefit of using the labs and testing facilities of APC's new Schneider Electric Technology Center to help further their green IT efforts.