OCP Sustainability Project

Welcome:

Welcome to the OCP Sustainability Project.

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:

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:

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:

• 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.

History

Historical Context

Initiative Leadership

-Mohan Kumar (Intel)

-Alexander Rakow (Schneider Electric)

Call Calendar:

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The General Sustainability Project meets every second Wednesday of the month, and alternates between 8:00-9:30 Pacific time and 17:00-18:30 Pacific time.

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Documents

- 2022 Monthly Meeting Minutes

- OCP White Paper, Sustainability Initiative

- OCP White Paper, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Guidelines for Cloud Providers

- Introduction to Design for Circularity Guide

- Design for Circularity Guide

General Sustainability Call Recordings

2023

- July 17, 2023

- June 14, 2023

- May 18, 2023

- April 12, 2023

- March 8, 2023

- February 8, 2023

- No Recording - January 11, 2023

2022

- May 11, 2022

- April 13, 2022

- March 9, 2022

- January 12, 2022

2021

- December 8, 2021

- November 17, 2021 Call Not Recorded

- October 12, 2021

- September 8, 2021

- August 11, 2021

- July 14 Call

- June 9 Call The International EPD System (Sebastian Welling)

- May 12 Call May 12 Meeting Minutes

- April 14 Call April 14 Meeting Minutes

- March 3 Call and Mar 3 Meeting Minutes

- February 17 Call and Feb 17 Meeting Minutes

- February 3 (Kickoff Call) and Feb 3 Meeting Minutes

Carbon Modeling & Carbon Data in the Datacenter

Carbon Modeling & Carbon Data Page

Today many of the companies involved in OCP have set and begun to measure the CO2 impact of their data center and cloud use. Two of the key opens in this space are: How to get the most accurate embodied CO2 values from the data center supply chain and how these values can easily be shared. There is a variety of intellectual property, approaches to LCA, and composition of components (and their various IP, LCA and compositions) which makes sharing data complex in a way to enable the right business decisions.

The OCP Carbon Modeling workstream has been created to help solve these problems. Through an industry and research partnership we will create a specification and initial implementation which enables programmatic access (via API) to sharing the critical sustainability information within the datacenter supply chain. The business scenario which this API enables initially will be how a silicon foundry can share the relevant sustainability information to a downstream customer purchasing and deploying its products in a datacenter and enabling increased accuracy and sustainability reporting for that product.

Meeting Notes:

- [1]

Call Recordings

- July 20, 2023

- July 13, 2023

- July 6, 2023

- June 15, 2023

- June 8, 2023

Draft Whitepaper

- [2]

Lifecyles Workstream Call Recordings

- October 6, 2021

- September 22, 2021

- August 25, 2021

- August 11, 2021

- June 16, 2021

- June 2, 2021

- May 19, 2021

- May 5, 2021

- April 9, 2021

Metrics & LCA Call Recordings

- August 29, 2023 - DCEM

- July 24, 2023 - DCEM

- July 10, 2023

- June 26, 2023 - DCEM

- December 8, 2021

- November 24, 2021 Call Not Recorded

- October 27, 2021

- October 12, 2021

- September 15, 2021

- September 1, 2021

- July 21, 2021

- July 14, 2021 Call Not Recorded

- June 23, 2021

- May 12, 2021

- April 28, 2021 Call Not Recorded

- April 21, 2021

- April 8, 2021