Bill > S1261

This bill, titled the Energy Efficient Government Technology Act, aims to improve energy efficiency within the federal government by leveraging 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 technology and practices, considering aspects like advanced metering, efficient data centers, and telework tools. The OMB will also establish performance goals to evaluate agencies' efforts, with a specific focus on data center energy efficiency, including metrics like Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and overall asset utilization, and will maintain a Data Center Task Force to share best practices. Additionally, the bill updates existing law to require the Secretary of Energy to coordinate with an industry organization to manage programs related to data center energy efficiency, conduct studies on energy efficiency trends, and maintain a program to certify data center energy practitioners who will evaluate agency data centers every four years. It also establishes an "Open Data Initiative" to make federal data center energy usage data publicly accessible for innovation while safeguarding national security, and promotes participation in harmonizing global data center energy efficiency standards and developing metrics for overall data center efficiency.