$75m spent on green centre
A collocation start-up is using Kelowna, British Columbia, for a $75 million data centre that promises to make extensive use of so-called green IT and other energy-efficient techniques, reports Computerworld.
The data centre will be built by IBM Canada and Rackforce Hosting. Due to be set up by year-end, the facility will be operated by gigaCenter Services and partly owned by RackForce and a private equity company. It will comprise 70 000 square feet of raised-floor data centre space and create jobs for up to 100 employees, the company said.
Enterprises will be able to rent out space in the gigaCenter facility to house their server equipment and provide business continuity, on-demand computing and other services.
IBM opens biggest green data centre
IBM says a 'green' data centre in North America is officially open at its Boulder, Colorado site. It is IBM's largest data centre location worldwide, says TMC Net.
The 115 000-square-foot data centre includes 70 000 square feet of raised floor space and is part of a $350 million investment by the corporation in Boulder to meet customer demand globally for green data centres and reduce energy costs.
The data centre, which was announced one year ago, is part of IBM's Project Big Green. Under the terms of the project, IBM has committed $1 billion per year to deliver technologies that help customers increase the level of energy efficiency in their data centres.
Green data centre push
Analysts say IT vendors like IBM and HP are responding to increasing enterprise concerns over data centre energy consumption, reports Computerworld.
"IBM announced enterprise additions to its Project Big Green, a week after HP announced its Sustainability Laboratory," saccording to Graham Titterington, principal analyst at global consulting firm Ovum. "The HP announcement included long-term data centre issues while IBM concentrated on new product releases to address this area."
Despite both vendors' different approaches in addressing the data centre energy issue, Titterington notes "large areas of agreement and overlap" in their 'green' philosophies.
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