OCP Sustainability Project

Welcome:

Welcome to the OCP Sustainability Project.

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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)

Documents

- OCP White Paper, Sustainability as the Fifth Tenant

- Data Sanitization for the Circular Economy

- 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

Call Calendar:

These meetings are recorded via audio and video. By participating you consent that these recordings may be made publicly available. Any presentation materials, proposals and meeting minutes are published on the respective project's wiki page and are open to the public in accordance to OCP's Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found at http://opencompute.org/about/ocp-policies/. If you have any questions, please contact OCP.

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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- General Sustainability Initiative Call Link

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- Meeting ID: 894 5834 7254

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Recordings from Past Calls

General Sustainability Call Recordings

2024

- May 08, 2024

- Apr 10, 2024

- Mar 13, 2024

- Feb 14, 2024

- Jan 10, 2024

2023

- Dec 13, 2023

- Nov 08, 2023

- Oct 11, 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 Accounting for Circularity

- Working Group Home Page

- There is no standardized way to report the carbon emissions for circular business models. How can reporting incentivize circularity?

Call Recordings

• May 16, 2024
• Apr 18, 2024
• Feb 15, 2024

Carbon Modeling

- Working Group Home Page

- This workstream focuses on embodied carbon, which is the CO2e emitted by the manufacture of the physical entities within a data center. Embodied carbon cannot be directly measured, rather it is modeled, and thus this workstream is named OCP Sustainability Carbon Modeling.

This workstream was created to address the following challenges:

• 1. Data Access: How to obtain best estimates of embodied CO2e values from the supply chain and researchers.
• 2. Data Opacity: How to understand the various methods that were utilized to estimate embodied CO2e at all steps along the supply chain.
• 3. Data Grade: How to summarize the quality and completeness of the embodied CO2e estimates.

Meetings are 3PM EST on Tuesdays.

- Minutes

- Draft White Paper

Call Recordings

2024

• Apr 02, 2024
• Jan 23, 2024
• Jan 16, 2024
• Jan 09, 2024

2023

• Dec 12, 2023
• Dec 05, 2023
• Nov 28, 2023
• Nov 16, 2023
• Nov 09, 2023
• Oct 05, 2023
• Sep 28, 2023
• Sep 21, 2023
• Sep 14, 2023
• July 20, 2023
• July 13, 2023
• July 6, 2023
• June 15, 2023
• June 8, 2023

Data Center Efficiency Metrics (DCEM) / Sustainability Metrics workstream

Call Recordings

2024

• May 24, 2024
• May 17, 2024
• May 03, 2024
• Apr 19, 2024
• Apr 12, 2024
• Apr 05, 2024
• Mar 29, 2024
• Mar 15, 2024
• Mar 08, 2024
• Feb 09, 2024
• Feb 02, 2024
• Jan 26, 2024
• Jan 19, 2024
• Jan 12, 2024
• Jan 05, 2024

2023

• Dec 15, 2023
• Dec 01, 2023
• Nov 17, 2023
• Nov 03, 2023
• Oct 13, 2023
• Oct 06, 2023
• Oct 02, 2023

Embodied Carbon

- The iMasons Climate Accord (iCA) and the Open Compute Project (OCP) have started an exciting journey in our joint effort to address the crucial issue of embodied carbon and its impact on data center sustainability. Both the iCA and OCP communities welcome your participation in a new Carbon Disclosure/Label Standardization Workstream.

- Scope 3 emissions, specifically embodied carbon in materials and equipment, pose a significant challenge to data center operators striving to achieve net-zero and carbon neutrality goals. As we recognize the urgency to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers, it is essential to engage our vast supply chain in measuring, reporting, and drawing down embodied carbon from data center inputs.

- The primary objective of our workstream is to develop a standardized framework for disclosing and managing embodied carbon in data center construction and operation. By establishing a clear and consistent approach, iCA and OCP aim to drive industry-wide collaboration and innovation, enabling data center operators to make informed decisions and take effective actions to reduce their environmental impact.

- Join the Embodied Carbon Discussion

Call Recordings

- April 17th, 2024

- Mar 20th, 2024

- Mar 1, 2024

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