The latest news on the wire is that IBM has taken Syracuse University’s (SU) data centre off the electric grid. SU’s data center will be supported by tri-generation, which burns gas to provide heating, cooling and electricity in one. This is being touted as one of the world’s greenest with the on-site power generation system, liquid cooling and DC power.
In a statement released this week, IBM and Syracuse said that the $12.4 million (£7.5m) , 12,000-square-foot facility is set to become fully operational in January and will use around 50 percent less energy than an equivalent sized facility according to IBM. The computer giant, which is backing the data centre to the tune of $5 million, is also planning to build a Green Data Centre Analysis and Design Centre in 2010 to help other organisations who want to create similar facilities.
