There will be more than 600 hyperscale data centres worldwide by 2020, which could have a beneficial impact on the cloud market, according to Rittal. Artificial intelligence will grow in acceptance and there will be a greater focus on energy efficient technology. Rittal has issued predictions for the data centre Read more…
CryrusOne’s London data centres move to 100% renewable energy
CyrusOne has announced that its London I and London II data centre facilities are now running on a 100% renewable energy tariff, a move which the company says will transfer energy annual usage equivalent to 52,000 households to zero-emissions sources. Comprising a combined 23MW of IT power, both CyrusOne’s London Read more…
Data Centre World: Researchers pilot energy efficient design with Boden Type Data Centre
Speaking at Data Centre World, Jon Summers, research lead at the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), said that there are important lessons to learn in order to future proof smaller data centres, which are expected to show growth with the increasing proliferation of edge sites and as 5G evolves. Read more…
Data Centre World: are data centres missing out on energy efficiency savings?
The impact of 5G, the evolution of the Edge and rising energy costs were among the major topics for discussion at Data Centre World this year. In fact, the latest analysis, by Vertiv, predicts that the move to 5G will increase total network energy consumption by up to 170% Read more…
Data Centre World: The key technology trends for 2019 that could improve resilience
Some key technology trends are emerging for 2019 that could mitigate the risk of outages, improve efficiency and help generate revenue. Speaking at Data Centre World, Alex Metcalfe, from Socomec, commented that data centres are increasingly moving to lithium-ion batteries and this has the potential to offer significant benefits that Read more…
Fläkt Group to offer a glimpse of inner workings of cooling at Data Centre World
Fläkt Group will demonstrate two of their data centre cooling solutions via special exhibition units, enabling visitors to see its Adia-DENCO and Multi-DENCO F-version products in action at DCW at ExCel, London on the 12th and 13th of March 2019 (stand D1030). The product demonstrations form part of a programme Read more…
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…
Survey finds energy efficiency ‘not a top priority’ for IT managers
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…
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…
Haven Power and GridBeyond ink DSR deal, target I&C flexibility
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…
Survey finds 40% of IT managers do not consider power efficiency important in data centre design
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…
How demand management supports security of supply
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…
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…
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…
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…
Powerstar invests in ‘Innovation Laboratory’
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…
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…
80% of businesses believe a quarter of energy needs will be generated onsite by 2025
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…
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…
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…
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