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meet the European Union’s tough standards for limiting the hazardous
chemicals and components used to make them.
ESPC (Energy Services Performance Contract)
An incentive envisioned by the U.S. federal government for efficiency
upgrades for data centers.
EUI (Energy Use Intensity)
The EPA uses EUI (kBTU/square foot) to determine building Energy
Star ratings. See www.energystar.gov for the range of EUI Energy Star
(green buildings) ranges depending on building type.

Fibre Channel
The technology commonly used to connect a server to external data stor-
age (SAN).
GB (Gigabyte)
A billion bytes of computer or hard-disk memory.
GIPC (Green IT Promotion Council)
An organization established in Japan in 2008 to address global warming
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by electronics firms, related industry bodies, and other groups.
Green Grid, The
A consortium of IT professionals working to improve data-center energy
efficiency.
green washing
Projects or processes that appear to be greener than they are; similar con-
cept to “white washing.”
Greenpeace
A group originally founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in
1971 to oppose the United States testing of nuclear devices in Alaska.
The focus of the organization later turned to other environmental issues:
whaling, bottom trawling, global warming, old growth, and nuclear
power. Greenpeace has national and regional offices in many countries.
It also has a big presence worldwide, all of which are affiliated to the
Amsterdam office of Greenpeace International.

grid computing
A major evolutionary step that virtualizes an IT infrastructure. It’s
defined by the Global Grid Forum (www.gridforum.org) as distributed
computing over a network of heterogeneous resources across domain
boundaries and enabled by open standards.