Customers Yearn for Green Standards

The US Environmenatal Protection Agency noted recently that servers and data centers in the US accounted for 1.5% of the country's electricity consumption in 2006.  This amounted to around $4.5bn worth of electricity, more than double that consumed in 2000.  Survey respondents put the blame partly on the lack of visibility about the issue. Around two-thirds said that an industry standard on energy efficiency for IT equipment would prompt them to change their procurement policies.

My take - we need supply chain benchmarks which are trusted and respected by both vendors and customers...