[CAnet - news] The Best Place to Build Zero Carbon Data Centers in North America

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[It is good to see a growing recognition by industry of the importance of
zero carbon data centers. I think it is imperative that academia also move
in this direction. As I have mentioned cyber-infrastructure is increasingly
one of the biggest power consumers on many campuses and, as a result, a
large contributor by universities to Green House Gas emissions. Funding
agencies can play a critical role by developing Private-Public-Partnerships
(PPP) much like the NSF has done with IBM and Google to assist universities
to move their campus cyber-infrastructure to zero carbon data centers.
Thanks to Doug Alder also maintains an excellent blog on this subject--BSA]

The Virtual Data Center - http://www.rackforce.com/blog/?p=59
Is Your Data Center Green Enough - http://www.rackforce.com/blog/?p=49
GigaCenter: Where We are Going - http://www.rackforce.com/blog/?p=48


The Best Place to Build a Data Center in North America
http://www.cio.com/article/183256/The_Best_Place_to_Build_a_Data_Center_in_N
orth_America

It's Kelowna, British Columbia, says IBM, which is working with Rackforce to
open a huge data center in this small city far from earthquake and flood
zones, close to cheap power sources and just a short flight from Vancouver.
 

But what most tourist brochures don't mention is that the Okanagan also is
becoming known in IT spheres for something else: data processing and
storage.

Thanks to its seismic stability, cheap and accessible power and a talented
workforce, the Okanagan recently has seen a proliferation of data services
vendors and has attracted interest from at least one major international
corporation to build one of the biggest data centers in the world.

When it opens later this year, this $100 million data center-appropriately
dubbed the Gigacentre-will total 85,000 square feet and will have the
capacity to store nearly 35,000 terabytes of data. Put differently, the
Gigacentre will generate more than 700 watts per square foot, while most
data centers currently generate a maximum of 300 watts per square foot.

The Gigacentre is a joint venture between IBM and Rackforce, a local hosting
service provider. It will be IBM's first data center in British Columbia and
is powered by hydroelectric energy from the Columbia River

Brian Fry, vice president and cofounder of Rackforce, says the center,
expected to open by this summer, will cement the Okanagan's position as the
new data capital of the West-a position that could be particularly
intriguing for U.S. companies who are looking to keep mission-critical
information offsite.


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