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A carbon neutral datacentre has opened in Keflavik, Iceland, which the owner, UK-based Verne Global, claims is the first of its kind. The company claimed it provides a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) quotient of almost one. It said it expects the datacentre, manufactured by information delivery platform Colt, to attract European and US companies as it is cheaper and more eco-friendly than similar datacentres. Further reading Datacentres greener than expected thanks to recession UK datacentre investment jumps by 25 per cent New energy-efficent datacentre to save Yorkshire Water £90,000 a year The PUE is determined by dividing the amount of power entering a datacentre by the power used to run the computer infrastructure within it. PUE is expressed as a ratio, with overall efficiency improving as the quotient decreases towards one. "If you offer an enterprise two datacentres at the same price, the enterprise would always pick the eco-friendly ... (Read Full Article)

The datacentre will be made more efficient by using direct free cooling (DFC) as well as more effective air management and the use of aisle containment, it will also use less space as a result of deploying SAR cabinets, which 2bm developed in conjunction with IBM. (Read Full Article)