NGD Lines Up Renewable Power for UK Data Center

Data Center Knowledge (Jun 8 2010)

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Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

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  1. “ Based on our Spring 2010 European Data Centre Barometer1 survey, NGD Europe's wholehearted and immediate commitment to renewable energy supply is likely to prove to be totally in-tune with industry wishes. ”
    By Mark Larard

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  1. NGD Lines Up Renewable Power for UK Data Center Next Generation Data has arranged for a UK power supplier to provide renewable energy to the company’s huge new data center in Newport, Wales, which is one of the largest data centers in the world. Next Generation Data Limited (NGD) has appointed SmartestEnergy, the UK’s largest purchaser of electricity from the independent generation sector, to supply the recently opened 750,000 square feet date center facility. The company said the agreement was part of its commitment to carbon reduction, a huge issue in the Uk int he wake of the April 1 onset of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). (Read Full Article)

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