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Boden Type Data Centre One officially inaugurated in Sweden

February 18, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Boden Type Data Centre One officially inaugurated in Sweden

The Boden Type Data Centre One, BTDC, has been officially inaugurated in Boden, Sweden. The Mayor of Boden, Mr. Claes Nordmark as well as the CEO of Boden Business Agency Mr. Erik Svensson delivered the inaugural address, as the representatives of the municipality, Mr. Pau Rey-García, Project Advisor gave a Read more…

Filed Under: Data Centres, Energy Efficiency

Survey finds energy efficiency ‘not a top priority’ for IT managers

January 30, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

A new report suggests IT managers are not putting environmental concerns and energy efficiency as high on their agenda as they should, with 43% stating they have no environmental policy and more than half (59%) saying they do not measure PUE. Furthermore, only 9% indicated energy efficiency as the top criterion Read more…

Filed Under: Energy Efficiency, News

Cooling solution cuts energy use by 85% for University of Plymouth

January 29, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Cooling solution cuts energy use by 85% for University of Plymouth

Ranked as one of the world’s leading modern higher education institutions, the University of Plymouth’s primary data centre is central to its IT estate. With the pre-existing cooling system nearing the end of its optimal service life and the School of Applied Mathematics requiring a capacity upgrade to accommodate its Read more…

Filed Under: Cooling, Data Centres, Energy Efficiency, News

Haven Power and GridBeyond ink DSR deal, target I&C flexibility

January 29, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Business energy supplier Haven Power has struck a demand-side response deal with GridBeyond. The two will work to unlock flexibility within Haven’s customer-base, bidding flexible megawatts into traditional demand-side response tenders run by National Grid as well as into wholesale markets. The aim is to maximise returns from onsite generation or Read more…

Filed Under: Demand Response, Energy Efficiency, News

Survey finds 40% of IT managers do not consider power efficiency important in data centre design

January 7, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

A new report suggests that IT managers are not putting environmental concerns and energy efficiency as high on their agenda as they should, with 43% stating they have no environmental policy and over half (59%)saying they do not measure PUE. Furthermore, only 9% indicated energy efficiency as the top criterion Read more…

Filed Under: Data Centres, Energy Efficiency

How demand management supports security of supply

December 3, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Site resilience and demand-side response are often seen in opposition. But the reverse is true – and can in fact be mutually advantageous, especially if your business could benefit from improving security of supply For many businesses, suffering an interruption to your power supply can be costly as well as Read more…

Filed Under: Demand Response, Energy Efficiency, Energy Procurement

Back-up power: understanding environmental regulation

October 31, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Back-up power: understanding environmental regulation

Greg Altria, associate consultant with SLR, provides an insight into the Environmental Permitting Regulations affecting mission critical sites The Environmental Permitting Regulations (England and Wales) 2016 (as amended) (EPR) are used by the government to place controls on a whole range of activities that have the ability to impact the Read more…

Filed Under: Data Centres, Energy Efficiency, Standby Generators

Supporting Ireland’s data centre growth

September 27, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Supporting Ireland’s data centre growth

Interxion’s DUB3 data centre has been designed using energy-saving, modular architecture. At the heart of the design was the need to guarantee service delivery and quickly scale up capacity to support customer growth plans  Interxion is a leading principal supplier of data centre, colocation and connectivity services to some of Read more…

Filed Under: Data Centres, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, UPS

DigiPlex helps heat Oslo homes

September 27, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

DigiPlex helps heat Oslo homes

DigiPlex, a data centre provider based in Norway, and district heating supplier Fortum Oslo Varme, have signed a letter of intent on the recovery of heat from DigiPlex’s data centre at Ulven in Oslo. The agreement will help meet the energy needs of approximately 5,000 Oslo apartments. Data centres today Read more…

Filed Under: Data Centres, Energy, Energy Efficiency

Powerstar invests in ‘Innovation Laboratory’

September 7, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Powerstar, a manufacturer of smart energy solutions, has invested half a million pounds in a purpose-built ‘Innovation Laboratory’ situated at the company’s head office and manufacturing facility in Sheffield. This investment will assist Powerstar in delivering bespoke solutions to clients, by allowing Powerstar’s growing in-house research and development team to experiment Read more…

Filed Under: Energy Efficiency, News

White Paper discusses cost and capacity benefits of cooling compressors

August 23, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

White Paper discusses cost and capacity benefits of cooling compressors

Compressors are at the heart of all cooling systems. They are used in data centre applications to carry heat energy away from IT equipment and ensure it is cooled efficiently. Their function is consistent in all cases: to compress a refrigerant from a low-pressure, low-temperature vapour, to a high-temperature, high pressure, Read more…

Filed Under: Cooling, Cooling & Air Movement, Data Centres, Energy Efficiency

80% of businesses believe a quarter of energy needs will be generated onsite by 2025

August 22, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Most businesses will take control of their own energy use by generating a quarter of their electricity onsite by 2025, with 77% of businesses in the UK and Ireland predicting this change will take place in just seven years. This is according to a new study of over 1,000 businesses, by Read more…

Filed Under: Energy Efficiency, Energy Procurement, Energy Security, News, Power Storage

Sky’s the limit for DSR revenues?

August 8, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Sky’s the limit for DSR revenues?

Is demand-side response an attractive proposition and are mission critical sites now coming on board? Demand-side response is becoming more critical as a method to balance the grid with increasing amounts of intermittent generation and a reluctance to have fossil fuel spinning reserve in place. Sites with back-up generation are Read more…

Filed Under: Demand Response, Energy Efficiency, Energy Procurement, Standby Generators, UPS

Is ambient cooling overtaking compressor technology?

August 7, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Is ambient cooling overtaking compressor technology?

Tim Bound, director at Transtherm Cooling Industries, explores the evolving role of ambient cooling technologies in keeping energy costs low in data centre applications As demand for data collection, storage and exchange multiplies at an unprecedented rate, experts are concerned that the energy consumption of data centre infrastructure is becoming Read more…

Filed Under: Cooling, Cooling & Air Movement, Data Centre Optimisation, Data Centres, Energy Efficiency

Does AI hold the key to reducing cost?

July 12, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Does AI hold the key to reducing cost?

Schneider Electric’s Patrick Donovan discusses the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in increasing reliability and efficiency Schneider Electric’s Data Centre Science Centre recently calculated that typical data centre physical infrastructure energy losses have been cut by 80% during the past decade. In many cases this has been enabled Read more…

Filed Under: Asset Management Software, Data Centre Optimisation, Data Centres, Energy Efficiency

CNet launches data centre sustainability programme

June 26, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

A new distance learning initiative, focused on sustainability, has launched by CNet in response to calls from data centre professionals for a programme to provide knowledge and innovative approaches to planning, designing, implementing and monitoring a sustainability strategy for data centre facilities and operational capability. A one-year distance learning programme, Read more…

Filed Under: Data Centre Optimisation, Data Centres, Energy Efficiency, News, Renewables

Vertiv extends partnership with Russian data centre operator IXcellerate

June 14, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has announced at Datacloud Europe the extension of its partnership with IXcellerate. The Russian data centre provider recently launched the third expansion of its Moscow One campus, creating one of the largest data halls in Russia. Vertiv has been a technology partner for IXcellerate since Read more…

Filed Under: Cooling, Data Centre Optimisation, Data Centres, Energy Efficiency, News, UPS

Siemens to harness AI to improve cooling efficiency

May 21, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Siemens to harness AI to improve cooling efficiency

The Siemens Building Technologies Division is expanding its existing Thermal Optimisation offering set for data centres to intelligently ensure both highly efficient cooling production and cooling distribution throughout the entire facility. To improve the way cooling is distributed throughout data centre “white space,” Siemens is integrating Vigilent’s artificial intelligence-based dynamic Read more…

Filed Under: Cooling, Cooling & Air Movement, Data Centre Optimisation, Data Centres, Energy Efficiency, News

Eaton joins research campus to drive energy innovation

May 16, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

Eaton has joined the Low-Voltage (LV) Consortium of FEN Research Campus as a new industrial partner dedicated to innovative energy projects. Eaton will contribute to the research and development activities of the LV Consortium, in which 13 industrial partners and 15 institutes of RWTH Aachen University are working together on Read more…

Filed Under: Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, News

The changing face of energy: The Energyst Event

March 28, 2018 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment

The changing face of energy: The Energyst Event

New event taking place 17th to 18th of April at National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham The full conference line-up has been officially announced for the inaugural Energyst Event. The conference focuses on end-user sessions with household brands such as Marks and Spencer and BT sharing their experiences. The conference stream: Energy Read more…

Filed Under: Demand Response, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Procurement, Energy Security, News, Power Management & Distribution, Risk Management, Standby Generators, UPS

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