Circular Economy
The Circular Economy is an economic approach to sustainability which minimizes waste and makes the most of IT assets. This approach focuses on developing products so they can be reused and repurposed with no residual waste.
As the amount of hardware used in data centers continues to grow, OCP is committed to looking at ways to help reduce waste and embodied energy across all areas of the data center infrastructure.
OCP members have led this effort by creating integrated software solutions based on 2nd user OCP hardware, which enables enterprise companies and public sector organizations to quickly evaluate, adopt and scale their infrastructure using proven hardware.
All integrated solutions on this page are based on a Circular Economy approach and supported by our OCP Members.
OCP Accepted™ and OCP Inspired™
Look for products that have an OCP Accepted™ or OCP Inspired™ icon.
Products that carry the OCP Accepted™ recognition comply 100% with an OCP approved specification and the design files are open sourced and available.
Products that carry the OCP Inspired™ recognition comply 100% with an OCP approved specification and are available from a Gold, Silver or Platinum member of OCP.
OCP Accepted™ or OCP Inspired™ products have been demonstrated and meet 3 or more of the OCP tenets-efficiency, openness, impact & scale. They can only be sold with warranty and support.
OCP Ready™
The OCP Facility Recognition program is intended to brand your facilities to be OCP Ready™. Guidelines were created by our Data Center Facility Project Team and serve as a reference for data center operators and tenants who want to understand the fundamental facility requirements to deploy this gear into their IT space. Facilities that meet these guidelines and approved by the OCP DC Facilities Project receive the certification as an OCP Ready™ facility.