Interxion has participated as a Contributor Member of The Green Grid for two years and served an important role in a number of projects, most notably in the development of practical universal metrics for energy and power efficiency. Interxion will also be hosting developed an Energy Efficiency Roadmap Seminar, which is scheduled for September 2010 and will feature speakers from The Green Grid, The Uptime Institute, APC by Schneider Electric, and the European Commission DG JRC.
As well as supporting The Green Grid in its work to develop and promote energy efficiency for data centers and business computing ecosystems, Interxion has benefited hugely from the advice that The Green Grid has delivered over the past two to three years. Most notably, Interxion has adopted the following TGG tools and procedures:
- Monitoring of energy ratio (PUE) in all 27 data centres since 2004
- Energy-efficient component selection within design engineering requirements
- includes deployment of free-air-cooling in all new builds since 2006
- Monthly internal overview of energy-efficiency covering all of the 11 countries in which the company operates
- Energy metering and providing energy-efficiency measurements to customers on request
- Best practice advice on energy-efficient implementation for customers