The House of Representatives is voting today on a bill asking the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) toa study on power consumption in data centers. It will focus on the entire data center power chain from what chip and server manufacturers to infrastructure vendors are presently and could be doing to increase energy efficiency as well as what incentives could be used to convince people to adopt energy-efficient data center technology.

DOWNLOAD House Report 109-538 - ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTER SERVERS

DatacenterDynamics notes: Related material will be presented at the San Francisco 2006 event on 27th July -

The status of efforts to improve energy efficiency of servers. A review of server energy metrics in the data center and opportunities for energy savings
Andrew Fanara, U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR Program
Dr. Jonathan Koomey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Staff Scientist.