Bill > HR540

This bill, titled the Energy Efficient Government Technology Act, aims to improve energy efficiency within the federal government by focusing on information and computing technologies. It mandates that each federal agency, in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), develop a strategy for maintaining, purchasing, and using energy-efficient technologies and practices, considering aspects like advanced metering, efficient data centers, and telework tools. The bill also requires the OMB, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to establish performance goals for evaluating these agency efforts, with specific attention to data center efficiency metrics like Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and overall IT asset utilization. Furthermore, it proposes the creation of a Government-wide Data Center Task Force to share best practices and requires agencies to report on their progress. The bill also amends existing law to update studies on data center energy efficiency, establish a program for certifying data center energy practitioners who will evaluate agency data centers annually, and create an "open data initiative" to make federal data center energy usage data publicly accessible for innovation while safeguarding national security. Finally, it calls for participation in global efforts to harmonize data center energy efficiency standards and the development of a metric to measure overall data center energy efficiency.