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Environment Agency Plants Itself In Green Data Centre
Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 17 2010) Microblogging
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The UK Environment agency is using Capgemini's Swindon data centre claimed to be the world's greenest, with a PUE of 1.08. The Environment Agency will be one of the first customers of Capgemini’s new Merlin data centre, due to launch on 17 September, which has been branded “the greenest data centre in the world”.
Located in Swindon, the facility will reportedly set a new global standard for energy efficiency, with a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.08. Known as Merlin, it will also be one of just a handful of data centres in the UK to be certified Tier 3 by the Uptime Institute, for being highly resilient, extremely green and ultimately secure.
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