A nonprofit Intel and Google started five years ago to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions that result from people and companies using computers has been folded into The Green Grid, an organization that has been working along similar lines on the data center side but has recently expanded its mission to encourage corporate sustainability as a whole.

Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) will move all of its programs and membership under The Green Grid brand. The companies will “fuse” resources to work on a set of common goals.

“It becomes one organization,” John Tuccillo, a Schneider Electric representative to The Green Grid who is also the organization’s board chairman and president, said. “We’re actually taking not only the membership but the programs of the initiative into the fold of The Green Grid.”

Intel’s Lorie Wigle, CSCI president, said there would not be a need for much work in creating those common goals. “Our objectives are already very well aligned,” she said.

By integrating with CSCI, The Green Grid benefits from the deep knowledge the nonprofit’s members have about IT energy use at the component and appliance levels, Tuccillo said. Other benefits include CSCI’s knowledge of power-management protocols, as well as management and supply efficiency targets.

Some of CSCI’s most recent work includes a set of guidelines for comparing energy efficiency of networking platforms, power-management guidance for software developers and power-management standards for computers.

The ogrs’ fusion plays well into the expanded scope The Green Grid has had since more than one year ago. Its new mission sits on three pillars: technology, business and sustainability.

Until then, the organization had been focusing strictly on data center energy efficiency.