OCP Sustainability Initiative

Welcome:

Welcome to the OCP Sustainability Initiative.

Disclaimer: Please do not submit any confidential information. All presentation materials, proposals, meeting minutes and/or supporting documents are published by OCP and are open to the public in accordance to OCP's Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found on the OCP OCP Policies page. If you have any questions please contact OCP.

Mission:

Data center industry is moving towards net carbon zero goals over coming decade. OCP Sustainability Initiative is working to enable progress towards industry goals by addressing unique challenges and opportunities presented within Open Compute Project ecosystem. Initiative is working towards bringing Sustainability as the 5th tenet into OCP. Leveraging the expertise of the OCP community, we offer an open framework and resources for OCP members and data center industry – vendors, suppliers, and end users - to deploy industry best practices that promotes reusability and circularity.

Goals:

Identify key steps in system and component design that require reimagination to promote reusability and circularity. Deliver roadmap to increase standardization of calculation, measurement, and disclosure of metrics across the IT product and data center life cycle. Publish (how-to) guidelines to offer frameworks for a supply-side resource consumption and implications on our common value chain Develop OCP-certified design and sourcing practices and creating circular operating modes.

Scope of Work:

Circularity and Lifecycle Extension Workstream

Led by :-Alexander Rakow (Schnieder Electric) and Fahmida Bangert (ITRenew)
Mission: The primary mission of this workstream is to identify industry best practices that can be shared across vendors, suppliers as well as end user behavior that promotes re-usability and circularity. With a focus to understand and explain circularity from technical and operational point of view, the workstream is investigating key elements in system and component design, and how to design with reusability in mind.
Circularity and Lifecycle Extension Workstream Mailing List Please contact the workstream leads if you would like to participate.

Metrics and Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) Workstream

Led by Jordan Tse (FB)
Mission: To identify methods for assessing & reporting environmental impact associated with the key stages of the life cycle of a certified open compute project components, systems and devices, and data center facilities. The goal is to publish metrics and the methodology that are relevant for OCP community to improve design, development and deployment of sustainable data center infrastructure that strives to reduce carbon footprint with every new generation.
Metrics LCA Workstream Mailing List Please contact the workstream leads if you would like to participate.

Initiative Leadership

-Dharmesh Jani DJ (Meta)

-Bill Carter (OCP)

-Tiffany Jin (Meta)

-Alexander Rakow (Schnieder Electric)

-Fahmida Bangert (ITRenew)

-Jordan Tse (Meta)

Call Calendar:

These meetings are recorded via audio and video. By participating you consent that these recordings may be made publicly available. Any presentation materials, proposals and meeting minutes are published on the respective project's wiki page and are open to the public in accordance to OCP's Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found at http://opencompute.org/about/ocp-policies/. If you have any questions, please contact OCP.

The General Sustainability initiative meets every two weeks on Wednesday from 10am-11am Pacific Time

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