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…
Swedish data centre to heat 10,000 Stockholm households
Nordic data centre operator, DigiPlex, and heating and cooling supplier, Stockholm Exergi (formerly Fortum Värme), have signed a large-scale heat reuse agreement. The agreement is claimed to be the world’s first where an already operational data centre with an indirect evaporative air-to-air cooling solution, will be retrofitted to recover excess Read more…
TCN Data Hotels upgrades to transformer-free technology
Providing 99.9999% availability, TCN Data Hotels runs two data centres in the north of the Netherlands, each with a capacity of approximately 50MW. However, the company also shares its knowledge and experience by developing facilities for third parties, ranging from 1MW to more than 100MW. The data centre operator sets itself Read more…
Firms could waste £7bn in next two years through lax energy management
Public and private sector organisations could waste £7.4bn on avoidable energy costs by 2019 if they fail to implement effective energy management strategies, reckons Inenco. The third party intermediary (TPI) has totted up the cost of rising non-commodity costs (renewable and low carbon subsidies, climate change levies and carbon taxes) and Read more…
Experts to discuss energy saving strategies
Ebm-papst UK is hosting a free breakfast seminar at its Client Centre in Chelmsford on Thursday 7th December on ‘Energy reducing strategies for the built environment.’ This breakfast seminar will see four key industry leaders sharing their companies’ approaches to improving energy efficiency. The speakers will demonstrate their unique strategy for Read more…
Government aims to simplify energy and carbon reporting while adding some bite
Government is consulting on a streamlined carbon and energy framework for larger UK companies. It thinks firms could save over £2bn a year by being more energy efficient. But, alongside that carrot, it is potentially threatening some stick. The department for business, energy and industrial strategy seeks views from firms Read more…
Microsoft signs agreement with GE to power data centres with wind power
Microsoft has signed an agreement with GE to purchase energy from its wind farm in County Kerry, Ireland, as part of its target of producing 50% of its data centre energy requirements through green sources by 2018. The companies have agreed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to support growing demand for Read more…
Adapting infrastructure following legislative change
From the IP Act and Brexit, to a new Green Grid performance metric, Future Facilities’ Jon Leppard discusss the potential impact on data centre infrastructure and how to ensure you are prepared. So far this year, organisations across the UK and Europe have been faced with negotiating a series of Read more…
PUE: a flawed and inadequate metric or practically perfect?
PUE has its critics but it is neither flawed nor inadequate. In fact, for what it is intended to represent, it is nearly perfect; and it would be were it not for a combination of a lack of understanding, deliberate abuse by marketing folks and the ease that it can Read more…
Going underground: taking modularity to new depths
Situated next to a deep, cold fjord, with access to an ample supply of hydroelectric energy, the Lefdal Mine Datacentre aims to be the greenest in Europe and was developed together with technology partners Rittal and IBM The Lefdal Mine Datacentre (LMD) in Norway has an ambitious vision; it aims Read more…
Apple to build new ‘green’ data centre in Iowa
Apple has announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art data centre in Waukee, Iowa, to better serve North American users of iMessage, Siri, the App Store and other Apple services. Like all Apple data centres, the new facility will run entirely on renewable energy from day one. Apple’s investment of Read more…
Equinix to install largest deployment of fuel cells for data centres
Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data centre company, has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between a subsidiary of Southern Company and Equinix in which Bloom Energy fuel cells will be installed at 12 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in the US. The project will provide a total capacity Read more…
Real time monitoring delivers cool benefits
The latest digital monitoring and metering solutions deliver high accuracy, for optimised efficiency and maximum savings, and can be retrofitted quickly and easily, according to Socomec. The role of data centres as the engine room behind mission and IT critical operations means that a robust energy efficiency strategy is a Read more…
Banking on big savings: boosting energy reductions for UBS
Ebm-papst has collaborated with Vertiv and CBRE to review energy efficiency at three of UBS’s London data centres and delivered significant gains. The simplest way to reduce the energy consumption in buildings is to ensure that all heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment is fitted with the highest efficiency EC Read more…
Electricity from largest Dutch solar park to power local Google data centre
Google and Eneco have announced that Google will purchase all of the green electricity generated by Sunport Delfzijl, the largest solar energy park in the Netherlands, for a period of ten years. The agreement with Eneco is Google’s fourth investment in sustainable energy in the Netherlands and the second agreement Read more…
CyrusOne colocation data centre deploys Panduit solution to optimise energy use
Panduit has supplied SynapSense Active Control system to CyrusOne’s Austin, Texas data centre, to provide environmental monitoring and optimise energy use. The system utilises wireless temperature, humidity and pressure sensors throughout the cabinets and underfloor airflow sections and communicates the information to the SynapSense monitoring software to automatically maintain preselected Read more…
£1.5m grant awarded for new engine technology
A consortium led by Lontra has been awarded a £1.5 million grant to apply the firm’s award-winning technology to energy generation. The Energy Catalyst grant, from by Innovate UK, aims to support business-led innovations to bring concepts to commercial readiness. Lontra will be leading the consortium set up by 2020 Power Read more…
Battery-free UPS system wins iF Design Award
HITEC Power Protection, a manufacturer of Diesel Rotary UPS (DRUPS), has announced that its PowerPRO2700 product has won this year’s iF Design Award. Each year, Germany’s oldest independent design organisation, iF International Forum Design GmbH, organises the iF Design Award, which is recognised as an arbiter of quality for exceptional Read more…
Are data centres using their UPS estate efficiently?
The latest research suggests that many UPS systems are not operating efficiently and are being under-utilised. Louise Frampton spoke to Riello UPS general manager Leo Craig about the potential for modular UPS to help data centres balance resilience and efficiency by offering scalable solutions. Riello UPS conducted extensive research looking Read more…
The pros and cons of eco-mode UPS: what does the future hold?
Ian Bitterlin discusses the potential risks and benefits of adopting eco-mode UPS technology, and considers the future impact of silicon carbide IGBTs. In the early days of thyristor-based series online (usually referred to as ‘double-conversion’ or, now, by the IEC Standard 602040-3, ‘VFI’, Voltage and Frequency Independent), with transformers and Read more…