UK Data Centre Power Could Fuel 6m Homes

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1. UK data centres currently cover three square miles – says DatacenterDynamics Research Data centres in the UK occupy a total area of 7.6 million square metres (81m sq.ft.) and consume enough energy to power six million homes. DatacenterDynamics Research has been preparing for its conference at the London ExCeL International Convention Centre (ICC) by measuring up the floor-space and power consumption of the UK’s data centres. The company based its findings on data from its Global Data Center Industry Census 2011. Predictive model sizes the market The researchers, in conjunction with CBRE (CB Richard Ellis), built a predictive model based on its census to determine IT-based demand for data centres in a given location, and the context in which they operate. Other input factors such as organisational size and IT dependence were also considered and factored in with known and observed information about data centres and data centre ... (Read Full Article)

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