Rackspace launches green UK data centre
Delivering outstanding Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.15 compared to the average data centre today rating of 1.7, and with a design BREEAM assessment certification of ‘Excellent’, it is one of the UK’s greenest data centres. The new operation is the first data centre in the UK to make use of innovative ‘indirect outside air’ cooling technology on this scale, without mechanical cooling, which means the overhead energy required to operate the data centre has been cut by almost 80 per cent. The use of these cutting-edge technologies in the facility is testament to both Digital Realty’s and Rackspace’s full support of the latest ASHRAE guidelines, which demonstrates an ability to follow stringent energy and sustainability targets while ensuring high levels of server performance.
The Crawley data centre was designed to maximize compatibility to and compliance with Open Compute Project standards. By using Open Compute Project designs, Rackspace has been able to realize outstanding scalability and energy efficiency opportunities in the hardware it deploys. The data centre delivers less weight, less waste and less wattage than traditional server designs.
Mark Roenigk, COO, Rackspace, commented, “This is our tenth global data centre now open to customers across the world and comes at a time when we are seeing more and more organisations preferring to keep their data closer to home. We are extremely proud to offer services for managing the clouds of dynamic business functions as they grow in the multi-device era. To have built a facility that is a starting point for boosting the adoption of more efficient technologies in the UK and Europe is a great reward in itself.” See more
