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== History of the OCP Sustainability Project | ==Welcome:== | ||
History of the OCP Sustainability Project. | |||
Original idea of developing Sustainability within Open Compute Project was introduced for consideration as a strategic initiative for 2021. On December 3, 2020, Dharmesh Jani (DJ) from Meta and OCP IC Co-chair presented a proposal for considering sustainability as a strategic idea to the incubation committee. Among 14 proposals, sustainability received unanimous support and was ranked as the top priority by the committee and volunteer leadership of the OCP project. In 2021, a core team was established to spearhead sustainability efforts with focus on Circularity and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The Sustainability Initiative Leadership for 2021 consisted of Dharmesh Jani (DJ), Jordan Tse from Meta, John Miranda from Intel, and Fahmida Bangert from IT Renew. First few months of 2021 were spent in developing the two initial work streams that attracted the most interest: | |||
1. Metrics Development and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Led by Jordan Tse (Meta), this workstream focused on defining methods for assessing environmental impact throughout the life cycle of certified OCP components, systems, and devices. The goal was to publish metrics and methodologies to enhance the design, development, and deployment of sustainable data center infrastructure, reducing carbon footprint with each new generation. | |||
2. Lifecycle Systems and Components: Led by John Miranda (Intel) and Fahmida Bangert (IT Renew), this workstream aimed to identify industry best practices that encourage reusability and circularity. The workstream explored system and component design, emphasizing the highest level of consumption and reusability. | |||
The core team engaged 11 top-level OCP projects, which embraced sustainability and pursued various efforts, including modular systems, circularity design, data center facilities sustainability, immersion and liquid cooling, and heat reuse. | |||
During 2H-2021, Dharmesh Jani (DJ) proposed incorporating Sustainability as the fifth tenet of OCP, expanding upon the original four tenets of Open, Scale, Impact, and Efficiency established in 2011. Following significant progress in 2021 and 2022, Sustainability became the 12th top-level project in October 2022 and was announced at the 12th OCP Global Summit held in San Jose on October 18, 2022. This marked a milestone in OCP's dedication to promoting sustainable practices within the organization. | |||
==Mission:== | ==Mission:== | ||
The data center industry is at the forefront of ever increasing power usage and greenhouse gas emissions in an age when climate change impacts are hard to ignore. OCP Sustainability is working to enable progress towards industry goals by addressing unique challenges and opportunities presented within the Open Compute Project ecosystem. 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. | The data center industry is at the forefront of ever increasing power usage and greenhouse gas emissions in an age when climate change impacts are hard to ignore. OCP Sustainability is working to enable progress towards industry goals by addressing unique challenges and opportunities presented within the Open Compute Project ecosystem. 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:== | ==Goals:== |