UCSD Joins The Green Grid

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UCSD Joins The Green Grid

University joins consortium in global effort to reduce energy use at data centers

SAN DIEGO, Jan 7. -- The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), which has implemented a wide range of energy-reducing initiatives across all levels of campus operations, has joined The Green Grid, a global consortium of companies dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and computing ecosystems.

Membership in The Green Grid complements and underscores the university's commitment to environmentally sound and power-efficient practices, including efforts at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the largest data center on the UC San Diego campus.

SDSC, a national-level supercomputer center funded by the National Science Foundation and UCSD, is currently undergoing a "green" building expansion featuring a host of energy-saving designs, materials and practices, all intended to put the data center at the leading edge of operational efficiency. The 80,000 square-foot building, to open next year, earned the 2005 Best Practices Award for innovative heating, ventilation and air conditioning design from the Higher Education Energy Partnership.

"The San Diego Supercomputer Center is an excellent example of how we must take a holistic approach to energy savings, by combining all the efficiencies of 'green' building design and technology with selecting and running the most efficient IT systems," said Steven Relyea, UCSD's vice chancellor for business affairs. "A significant portion of the university's overall operations budget goes to energy costs such as heating and cooling. The SDSC expansion project has given us a new level of energy-saving expertise that we are actively applying to other projects across the entire campus."

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