Energy star products
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IBM has a long history with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR® program. ENERGY STAR is a voluntary program which sets energy efficiency and labeling requirements for different product types to identify and promote energy-efficient products.
IBM was a founding partner in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program, and we continue to certify eligible products to its criteria.
In 2021, IBM had five Power9TM-based server models subject to ENERGY STAR criteria, and four of them were certified (models S914, S922, S924, and E950). No IBM Power10 servers released in 2021 were subject to the ENERGY STAR criteria. IBM also had four storage products certified to ENERGY STAR in 2021.
For a list of IBM’s ENERGY STAR certified servers and storage products, please visit:
ENERGY STAR certified IBM Power Systems servers
ENERGY STAR certified IBM storage products
For information on how to access the temperature and power use data on IBM’s POWER® processor-based servers, please visit:
For more information on IBM and product energy efficiency, visit our Product energy efficiency webpage.
Regulatory Development Activities
IBM actively assists in the development of external product energy efficiency standards. In 1992, IBM became a charter member of the EPA’s ENERGY STAR computer program and helped to develop the first ENERGY STAR criteria for personal computers. Since then, we have continued to support the ENERGY STAR program and other regulatory programs to assist in the development of new criteria for certifying server and storage products.
IBM engineers are working with industry peers and technical associations to support the development of harmonized worldwide energy efficiency standards for server and storage products. We are:
- Performing extensive evaluations of SERT test data and other industry metrics in support of creating a single metric that can be used to effectively assess the energy efficiency of server products, with the goal of driving a reduction in server power required to deliver a given workload.
- Working in collaboration with The Green Grid, the Information Technology Industry Council and its China affiliate, USITO, and DIGITALEUROPE to evaluate SERT and Storage Networking Industry Association Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification results and to advocate for SERT and Emerald as the harmonized energy efficiency test metrics for server and storage products.
- Assisting the ENERGY STAR program and regulatory bodies in China, the European Union and Japan with the development of server energy efficiency criteria based on the SERT metric.